" 'But as I make the laws here, I can also break them' " (219).
In this chapter I realized that Mustapha Mond is a round character. He speaks with authority to the people in his society about the importance of stability and doing everything as it is supposed to be done. In front of his people, he finds change and individualism as a threat to the stability of the society, so he has to squelch any signs of it before it gets too out of hand. In reality, we see from this quote that he is not just a dictator controlling all of these people for his own good. He actually breaks the rules and has his own individual spirit. In fact, at one point he was in jeopardy of being relocated to an island where the free spirits are sent to prevent corruption among the people. Rather than punishing the three men for their attempts disturbing the peace, he is in a way rewarding them. He is setting them free to an island to live as individuals where their own ideas can flourish. Surprisingly, Mond envies the men and their relocation to the islands of unorthodoxy. I think the purpose of having Mond as a round character is Huxley's way of giving the readers multiple interpretations of the way things are done at the Centre. It is effective because Mond is able to give the readers and the characters explanations of why things are done certain ways from an all-knowing perspective because he has experienced both sides of the spectrum (from science, "the public danger," to the Controllership).
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