Mustapha Mond said, "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." I believe that he means that the machines cannot function without the tending of the humans. Without humans, the wheel would not even turn and just lay there. Humans are created to turn and maintain the machine. However, it cannot be any man who is created, it must be a man that follow and do what he is told. He should and like what they are doing and do not question what he are doing. Another way of looking at this is that the wheel is the circle of life, in order for life to proceed, humans control in a certain way. They can only live to a certain age, do certain things, and have certain abilities. If humans are not control then the humans can died out. In order to accomplish this method, the human experiences are manipulated to control the desired outcome, such as family and monogamy. For example, Mustapha Mond said, “…Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group! Maniacally, the mother brooded over her children (her children)…” (37). He manipulated others to believe that families were such horrible relationships. The bonds between families are weird and crazy things to have. By manipulating others to believe this, they do not want people to desired bond with each other. A mother’s love is view as something scary and dirty. By destroying the bonds, it is easier to made people listen and obey. Furthermore, as Henry Foster said to the Assistant Predestinator and Fanny said to Lenina that “every one belongs to every one else” (47). They all believe that no one owns the other. Every one is sharing every one. Unlike our view of being married to only one person, their view is that every one is married to every one. There is not a personal bond that can develop within two people. They are going from one partner to another quickly. It seems that they are trying to destroy bonds. Bonds can affect the development of emotions in humans. Emotions can lead to rebellions in the humans. The people want to create certain kind of people to do certain jobs. For this to happen, emotions must be controlled.
Gosh!!! I can't believe I have to do this comment, not that I hate writing comments; it's fun. ~.~ Anyways, I liked your blog. I really liked that you had quote from the text that really supported your saying. I, too, feel that by breaking the bonds between people, people are less likely to go against "society." Thus, the society controls and creates the human in a way that makes them unable to develop any "deep" bond with another "thing/person." I believe that their emotions, or desires, according to the Socratic Circle, are controlled by a substance called "soma." If I can remember, soma is something dealing with Hinduism, a relic of some sort, similar to the holy grail for Christians. Another thing that I really liked what you did was that you documented the quotes from the book. I think that using the MLA format in these simple blogs will help you in the future to remember the format and how it is done. Good Job! I also liked that fact that your blog is like a mini essay, your quote, your support, your commentary. Like I already said, I believe that writing your blogs in an essay format really helps when you get to the real thing, the essay. From reading your blogs, now I know that I, too, should also write my blogs in a more essay form to improve my essay writing skills too. Good posting overall!
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