Analysis Of Mustapha Mond In A. Huxley
When Linda is returned to the new world, she becomes transfixed with attempting to erase all the reminders of what she went through at the reservation and drowns herself in Soma. She desperately wants to escape her individuality which she had been conditioned to hate. Once she got pregnant, Linda no longer belonged in either world. She was not accepted in the new world due to their rules about motherhood, and she did not fit in at the reservation due to her conditioning and being an outsider. This becomes an example of the failings of the new world. Even though Linda always dreamed of being able to go back she is unable to find true joy without the heavy use of drugs. This indicated the society is not perfect but seems so due to the concealment
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This is when Mond presents the idea: “universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. (A. Huxley 228)” Mond tells his story of wishing to pursue science and being given a choice of living isolated while being able to pursue that or forgetting about that and being set on a track to be world controller. He chose to become a slave to the needs of society and ignore what had been most important to him as an individual. He cannot be truly happy in his position, but it allows him to sympathize with the others who were in the position he had been in. Mond sends Bernard and Helmholtz to an island while John escapes to an abandoned lighthouse. At this lighthouse he tortures himself for impure thoughts and is harassed by the media for his unusual behavior. This leads to his suicide, which “serves as a final symbol of universal death, or of the ultimate horror of the road civilization must be traveling. (Shmerl 256)” John’s suicide is the final proof that the people in the reservation are not perfect and it is not the ideal society either. This shocking result proves the reservation is primitive in its ways which results in people destroying themselves in fear of affecting others. This connects to Huxley’s idea that man would destroy himself by violence. The reservation used violence to resolve any crime or idea that went against their beliefs, which is where John had received his ideals. It is his violence which attracts the media’s attention towards him which leads to his quick decline and
This is when Mond presents the idea: “universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. (A. Huxley 228)” Mond tells his story of wishing to pursue science and being given a choice of living isolated while being able to pursue that or forgetting about that and being set on a track to be world controller. He chose to become a slave to the needs of society and ignore what had been most important to him as an individual. He cannot be truly happy in his position, but it allows him to sympathize with the others who were in the position he had been in. Mond sends Bernard and Helmholtz to an island while John escapes to an abandoned lighthouse. At this lighthouse he tortures himself for impure thoughts and is harassed by the media for his unusual behavior. This leads to his suicide, which “serves as a final symbol of universal death, or of the ultimate horror of the road civilization must be traveling. (Shmerl 256)” John’s suicide is the final proof that the people in the reservation are not perfect and it is not the ideal society either. This shocking result proves the reservation is primitive in its ways which results in people destroying themselves in fear of affecting others. This connects to Huxley’s idea that man would destroy himself by violence. The reservation used violence to resolve any crime or idea that went against their beliefs, which is where John had received his ideals. It is his violence which attracts the media’s attention towards him which leads to his quick decline and