Brave New World By Aldous Huxley Chapter 17 by Dinuki Rajapaksha https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2017-08-02 09:19:21 UTC 2017-08-03 04:30:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Relevant Quotes raj0016 https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179938212 Science/Totalitarian Control
  • ‘ART, SCIENCE - YOU seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness,’ said the Savage. (John) pg.203
  • ‘What you need,’ the Savage went on, ‘is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.’pg.211
  • ‘It’s one of the conditions of perfect health….[compulsory] V.P.S. treatments pg.211
  • ‘Violent Passion Surrogate... we flood the system with adrenin… complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage...All the tonic effects of being murdered by Othello, without any inconveniences.’ (Mustapha Mond) pg.211
  • "Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. That's why I have to keep these books locked up in the safe."
Commodification 
  • ‘As a happy hardworking, goods-consuming citizen he’s perfect’ (Mustapha Mond) p.208
Religion
  • ‘You can carry at least half of your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears  - that’s what soma is’ (Mustapha Mond) pg.210
  • ‘But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.’ (John) pg.211 
  • ‘God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.’ (Mustapha Mond) pg. 204
Freedom 
  • ‘I’m claiming the right to be unhappy. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat’ the right to be loudy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind’  (pg. 212)


]]> 2017-08-02 09:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179938212 Themes raj0016 https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179940085 Art 
Science 
Religion 
Totalitarian Control
Freedom 
Commodification]]> 2017-08-02 10:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179940085 Key Characters raj0016 https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179941431 Mustapha Mond
A World Controller that believes in rigorous control without the inefficiencies of religion, emotions, convenience of a caste syytem that provides happiness to all citizens but ironically keeps books like the 'Holy Bible' in his safe.

John the Savage
Born in the Savage Reservations who believes in freedom, love, art, religion and true beauty and disagrees with the inhumane conventions of World State. 
 
]]> 2017-08-02 11:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179941431 Literary Techniques raj0016 https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179942306
Allusions to God/ Religion
In a world that claims to have eradicated religion has a lot of reference to soma being an alternative religion that serves the same purpose but doesn't include the inefficiencies, commitments and emotions involved with religion.

Irony
It is ironical that Mustapha Mond keeps illegal literature in his safe and enjoys music but believes in a world that has eradicated all the above for the happiness of the citizens and utilitarian control.

Foreshadowing
John the Savage claims that god/religion gives humans the chance to self denial, chastity and courage, all characteristics absent in the World State causing him frustration. This is foreshadowed in chapter 18 when he engages in self flagellation due to denial, despair and self loath for succumbing to the World State. ]]> 2017-08-02 12:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179942306 Key Points raj0016 https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179942594 Chapter 17 contains an important interaction between Mustapha Mond and John the Savage who share completely opposite beliefs on how the world should be run and controlled. 

Mustapha Mond is portrayed as a paradoxical character in this chapter as he has a collection of  'pornographic old books'  like the 'Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments', 'The Imitation of Christ' and 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' but believes in more utilitarian form of control that prevents the need for god or religion, 'God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.' For Mustapha Mond, soma is the equivalent to religion, 'A christianity without tears': a religion without the emotions and conflict.

Chapter 17 of Brave New World also encompasses, John's frustration at Mustapha Mond's way of control and outlines the importance of a natural world where people have the right to be unhappy, the right to grow old, and the right to experience sickness as they are essential to freedom, beauty and religion. 

Through the characters of Mustapha Mond and John the Savage, Huxley creates an opportunity for the readers to choose between freedom and comfort.]]> 2017-08-02 12:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/179942594 Transition from Chapter 16 raj0016 https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/180010298 In Chapter 16 of Brave New World, readers are exposed to a discussion on the meaning of happiness; a happiness that relies on consumerism and a caste system that allows the 'his fordship' to maintain social stability. A happiness that creates a false sense of belonging for all citizens through a predetermined caste system. World State is portrayed as a technotopia, ahead in technology than the present time, but also how this requires meticulous control, has to be restricted in order to maintain universal happiness or the suppression of knowledge. For Mustapha Mond, consumption=happiness=social stability. Mustapha Mond also believes that a world built by science and already has a predestined definition of happiness can not also be committed to truth.  

Through the character, Mustapha Mond, Aldous Huxley outlines the rigorous control, unconventional caste system, ironic reference to science and a society that relies on consumerism. 

Which leads into the conflicting ideas presented by Mustapha Mond and John the Savage in chapter 17. ]]> 2017-08-03 03:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/raj0016/tv3xsjh49vsz/wish/180010298