Mustapha Mond is one of the most
dominant characters in the novel “Brave
New World” by Aldous Huxley.
This novel presents a satirical picture of the future based on the extreme
advancement of science. Mustapha Mond is the Resident World controller
for Western Europe in the future world presented by Huxley in the novel. He is
one of the most important characters in the novel, and contributes a lot to the
development of the plot. He remains committed to the cause of the brave new
world based on scientific advancement and mechanized existence. According to S. Diana Neill,
“The ideas in favour
of this
process and of the
mechanization
and standardization of man
resulting from it are
expressed
through the world controller
Mustapha
Mond.”
A representative of the ‘Brave New World’
Mustapha
Mond is a representative of the
‘Brave New World’ against the attacks of Helmholtz and John and as
such he is an idea champion. He is a wide awake to the merits of opposing case.
He is a first rate psychologist, knowing how to win John’s confidence. He is a
campaign against the Past; by the closing of museum and the blowing up of
historical monument, he presents suppression of historical truth in the modern
world. He presents the anti-religious picture of “Brave New World” as he believes that ‘Religious sentiment
is superfluous’.
In this way, Mustapha Mond is a highly useful
agent in the satirical method as well as the spokesman for the “Brave New
World’.
An intelligent and well read man
Mustapha
Mond is an intelligent and well read man who has his own views on
various issues. He is a strong advocate of the new world order and gives
arguments in its favour. His appearance has striking and he is a man of great
authority. He soon reveals as a man of wide ranging intellect as he informs the
students of the historical development of the society with which they are
familiar. According to Paul W. Gannon
“The World Controller is one
of the most
important
characters because he is the
most intelligent and the most
knowledge- he has read and
studied many forbidden book.
His frightening Sanity
The
character of Mond is marked with his frightening Sanity. In the later
part of the novel, the conversation between the controller and John the savage
is the device Huxley uses to put across his own ideas and concerns. When the
controller explains his values and beliefs, his arguments and explanations are
clearly and logically presented; his sanity makes the in sanity of the ‘Brave
New World’, all the more vivid and frightening. Paul W. Gannon remarks,
The controller in many ways
represents the intelligent,
capable, individual who uses
his intelligent and capability
for unworthy end.
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Contrasted with Savage:
Mond
emerges as contrasted with Savage. In the chapter seventeen of
the novel ‘Brave New World’ the savage is left alone with Mustapha Mond to have
a conversation with him involving a discussing of two alternative worlds of
systems. The outcome of the argument is not victory for John, except in the
sense that he sticks to his guns. Mustapha Mond is not the victor but he has
complete answer to all the problems raised by the savage.
The
savage makes the escape of the creature that is hurt too much; he kills
himself. Mustapha Mond is on the other
hand quite at home in, and satisfied with the world and its values that he is
supposed to represent.
Huxley’s own conflict
The
perfect reasonableness with which Mustapha Mond develops his side of the case
suggest strongly that Huxley is dramatizing conflict of his own. Through
Mustapha Mond Huxley projects an aspect of his own thinking on various matters.
He is opposing happiness to truth and beauty. The same may be said of personal
freedom. Religion is an agent of misery as of joy. Social justice in the sense
of social equality is impossible. Huxley’s meaning in the novel ‘Brave New
World’ is aided by structure. Mustapha Mond has the last word probably to
counteract in our minds the simple nobility of John final statement, which must
not be given too much weight.
Mustapha
Mond is one of the ten world controller and is in charge of Western Europe. As
distinguished from other characters of the novel, he holds a unique position in
the future world presented therein. He is at least apparently, the only a man
among the few characters in the novel who assert their individuality. In the
novel, the few true human beings who have managed to resist progress are
deviants from the majority of society. Bernard Marx, Helmholtz, and the Savage,
are all oddities in a world where the average man can’t stand to be alone. The
only member of the establishment who has remained human is Mustapha Mond.
Conclusion
5
To
summing up, Mond is one of the
most importance characters who stand next only to Savage in importance both as
a character and a spokesman of a particular world view. He is a key figure in
the structure and satirical method of the book. Certainly he is the most heroic figure, in the book.
In a short he is a well-drawn character in his right, whom Huxley develops more
deeply then any of the other character. As Stephen J. Greenblatt remarks in his
book “Three Modern Satirists”.
Mond with a through knowledge
of
society, both before and
after
ford freely chooses to
side with
the state and helps
mould it
with a brilliant but
perverse creativity. 
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