He is drumming in the idea of stability and society functioning as a whole.
In the lines involving Mustapha and his students, he is telling them about the horrors of motherhood and monogamy. The following three paragraphs are the three collaged conversations. The more stitches, the less riches" Chapter 3, pg. They chant sayings such as "Ending is better than mending. At one point, yet another simultaneous situation is added to the collage of dialogue: the voices of hypnopaedia, teaching the infants to provide the demand to industrial supply. It is important to note that the lines of dialogue are like a collage, alternating without notice between the three conversations, and that the lines become shorter and shorter until they are not even attributed to a speaker anymore, and are only distinguishable by their subject matter. The Director is nervous and confused to leave the students in the hands of Mond because he has heard rumors that the Controller has forbidden books like poetry and Bibles in his office.Īs the work day ends, the rest of this chapter describes short interludes between Mustapha Mond and the students, Lenina and her friend Fanny, and Bernard Marx and Henry Ford. 34 History has been wiped away like dust all forms of past culture, even the memories of Ancient Greece and Rome, Jerusalem, Shakespeare, and Odysseus have been eliminated. He shares with the students: "You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk." Chapter 3, pg. The students are awed by the presence of Mustapha Mond.
He is described as having an "unsavoury reputation." Chapter 3, pg. Henry Foster and the Assistant Director of Predestination purposefully turn their backs in the elevator to snub a man named Bernard Marx of the Psychology Department. At this moment, the four thousand electric clocks at the Centre strike four. Mustapha Mond, the Resident Controller for Western Europe. The students are shocked to learn that in the time before Ford, erotic play was forbidden as children, adolescents, and at times all the way up until the people were over twenty years old.Ī deep voice suddenly breaks in, saying that the results were terrible. The Director tells the students an incredible story: before the time of Our Ford, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal and suppressed. A nurse passes by with a howling little boy-he had seemed reluctant to engage in erotic play, so she is taking him to the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology. The director points to a boy and a girl engaging in a sexual game. They play a game called Centrifugal Bumble-puppy, which involves a chrome steel tower and a rolling ball. Outside in the playground, six or seven hundred naked children are running around.
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