BNW-blog 17

Chapter 16


Summary:
Bernard, John and Helmholtz are brought to the Controller’s office. Mustapha Mond enters and starts asking John questions. They begin talking about science and how he had the option to go to an island like Bernard and Helmholtz and destined to. When he mentions this, Bernard immediately starts groveling. Mustapha sends him away to be given soma to calm down. The rest of the men continue to carry out their conversation about what Mustapha had to give up to become a World Controller. Mustapha tells them all of the things the society had to give up to become stable, such as science.

Helmholtz asks Mond if he can be sent to an island with terrible weather because he thinks it will be easier to write. Mustapha thinks this is fair and agrees to it. Helmholtz goes to check on Bernard.



Vocab:
Parenthetically ~adj~ characterized by the use of parentheses



Lit. Terms:

Allusions:
The Tempest ~ "Sometimes a thousand twantgling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices."

 Macbeth ~ "But they're… they're told by an idiot."

Othello ~ "Goats and Monkeys"




Chapter Importance:
We discover what the society had to give up to become stable.  They had to give up art and limit the ability scientists have to discover new things. Science leads to change, which leads to instability. 

We also learn how Mustapha became a World Controller. He used to be a physicist, a very good physicist. He was almost too good; he was doing things that only the ‘head cook’ should be able to do. The government asked him if he would rather go to an island to be isolated from society or to possibly become a world controller. He chose World Controllerism. He decided to put other peoples happiness before his own, which he sometimes regrets.