Friday, August 12, 2011

Potential Uprising?

"All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community life." (Page 227)

     The Controller, Mustapha Mond, is lecturing Bernard, Helmholtz, and John the Savage about why they must be content with the way their world works. If they don't comply with his demands they will be banished to an island with other citizens who tested the boundaries of the society that lived in. I can't help but wonder though why Mond and the rest of the Controllers think it wise to put all of the rebels together on various islands. Is this not the makings of a potential uprising? I used my simple deductive reasoning skills to answer my own question. There will not be an uprising simply because there are not enough pages left in the book to hold the amount of time I know Huxley would want to dedicate to an uprising. It would be exciting, but it is not practical at this point. The story is coming to a close, and I am excited to be finished with this world that goes against everything I believe in.

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