Mond says that people need new things, it is the only way to keep the world going. Consumerism is a lot of what this world is based on. Good things, like literature, are things that people can get attached to and the society doesn't agree with that. Also this same idea reflects on the relationships in the book. Everyone jumps from one lover to another, not allowing them to get attached. That was one of Bernard's faults when he got attached to lenina. He also talks of how there is no other emotion but happy. The civilization doesn't know what sad or pain or any other emotions are, they only know happy. Whether that is true happy or not who can say?
This book really scared me. To think that a world can be totally taken over like that is a frightening ordeal. I think if you don't experience all the emotions that we do daily you are not really living. I think it's also really sad that all the old things are thrown out. We can learn so much from the past! It just seems like how they run their world would be a waste to me.
He hated the happiness and how no other emotions were allowed. He wanted to feel love from lenina, and he never let his lust overtake him. He felt that the individual was important when society said it was just about the whole. Him killing himself was even worse. By doing that he was more easily forgotten, it was just a little disruption and people could just go back to their pointless lives. I really think that him killing himself in the end was the worst thing he could have possibly done.
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