First Brave New World Posting

Mustapha Mond’s words make up a fitting quote that sums up the basis for the society in Brave New World.  There society is solely based on efficiency and productivity.  What Mond is saying is that in order to increase efficiency, there has to be men in society that are willing to take the lower end jobs.  These men have to accept their role or position and learn to find contentment in their work.  Therefore the entire society has become focused on breeding humans in a way that predetermines their profession.  These people are also programed to love what they do and enjoy their workplace.  The general philosophy is that if one is happy in his workplace, he will become more productive and therefore benefit society.  Thus, the government takes it upon their own hands to breed and create certain people for certain jobs and positions in the workplace.

With the creation of infants in an artificial and mass production manner, the feeling of family life is taken away.  Most of the youth in existence does not have any knowledge of what a family is.  Mustapha Mond gives an illustration of family life and explains that “The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversion…full of madness and suicide” (39).  The youth is not exposed to the true meaning and feeling of a family.  Mond’s description of family life is blown out of proportion.  Rather than clarifying what a family is, Mond goes about manipulating the minds of his listeners.  He describes families as dangerous and ultimately bad for society because they are not as productive.  Mond is able to manipulate the minds of these people because they do not know any different.  None of them have experienced a family themselves, so all they know about a family is its unproductivity as described by Mond.  This is against the principles of the Henry Ford worshiping society, so the youth takes the position that family life is bad.  In taking this action, they prove themselves loyal to the government and do not challenge the beliefs of society.