Meet+Mr.+Mond


 * //What //
 * introduce the character Mustapha Mond, the Resident Controller for Western Europe (there are only ten World Controllers)
 * refer to him as "fordship" (like god, someone to have a lot of acclaim)
 * § Mustapha Mond talks about family and the students have no idea what he’s talking about.
 * § The students along with others heard the phrase hypnopaedic phrase “Everyone belongs to everyone else” Sixty-two thousand times while they slept.
 * § Mond talks about how society used to be so unstable because there was monogamy, mothers, lovers, and quite simply love.
 * § Mustapha says that the controllers ensure that the people don’t have to feel any painful emotions at all and live an emotionally easy
 * life.
 * § The nine years war starts in A.F. 141
 * § Mond tells the students about the horrors of the war in brutal detail
 * § In A.F. 178 two-thousand pharmacologists and bio-chemists were subsidized, 6 years later the perfect drug was being massed produced, it was called soma.
 * § The appearance and effects of old age were done away with because of new treatments that would make a person retain their young state throughout their lifetime.
 * //Why//
 * shows that Mustapha is a very important and wise person, teaches huge lesson to children - he knows a lot of stuff.
 * § There are no families anymore in society, there are babies being created from conditioned bottles.
 * § This phrase ensures that everyone in society feels as though they are part of something bigger and also to maintain the sexual freedom among citizens.
 * § This further the students understanding of why the controllers do what they do with the world, in essence, to keep it as far from what Pre-Ford as possible.
 * § When there are no emotions in the people, so there is stability; this is what the world is ruled around.
 * § This war is what put the controllers in power over the world to begin with.
 * § By Mond telling the students about war (something that no longer happens on Earth) they are further persuaded that the world that they live in now is better than any other alternative.
 * § Soma is a very important part of the book and the characters that we follow, so this introduces us to its young beginning.
 * § This will later help us understand why the appearance of Linda (John’s mother) scares and disgusts the people of Brave New World.
 * //How//
 * § Dialogue from Mustapha Mond