Brave New World - the conflict between Mond and the Savage

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Community, Identity, Stability... or Conspiracy, Ignorance, Sterility?

In BNW, we are presented with 2 completely different worlds. The first mocks the supposed utopia of the 'perfect' world. The people who live in this Utopia believe... no, they don't even believe, as 'believe' implies they have a choice in the matter... they are conditioned, brainwashed, into accepting and embracing this fantasy place. We can see just how removed this world is by the way they treat their people. It is hard to imagine for us - living in a time where 'Human Rights' is a catch phrase - just how they will dehumanise their society and all who live within it. The people in this world are nothing. They are objects! Worse than objects! The way that Henry Ford produced cars are the way this world is producing things that are barely humans. All problems that occur can be "solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of Identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." Mass production of humans. This is one of the principle issues - treating humans like nothing, a "cell" in the "social body". Even as children they are spoken of in terms of mass production, when "the

"But instead of saying 'Darling!' and holding out his arms, the savage retreated in terror, flapping his hands at her as though he were trying to scare away some intruding and dangerous animal."

This is John's conscious decision - that the world is better without emotional stability. Even if it means rocking from one extreme to the other and suffering all sorts of physical pain. The words "'I claim them all'" shows us the desperation he feels in being trapped inside of an ideal world that he sees as torture. The "freedom" (everyone's free to be happy now) is really confining people to specific thought patterns and desires. The Savage asks one question which hasn't been answered, and it is the question that Huxley asks us, the question that BNW is built around: "'Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death? The gods are just. Haven't they used his pleasant vices as an instrument to degrade him?'" And we may never know the answer.

Bernard's ominous warning sets the scene for what is going to come in the final confrontation between the Savage and Mustapha Mond. "'And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?'" We can see from John's ideals before this (the strong belief in marrying 'for ever', the self-sacrificing nature where he sees that he must do something to be 'worthy' of the woman he loves, his desire to purify himself from what he sees as evil thoughts - but what the world sees as natural, and his fascination with Shakespeare) that he will never fit into the BNW.

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Approximate Word count = 1754
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English