"The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts-full of madness and suicide" (39).
Chapter three includes a satirical aspect when the Controller, Mustapha Mond is describing to the boys our lives today. He is ridiculing our way of life from our familial structure to being viviparous to our governments. By ridiculing our way of life and the madness it brought, Mond is trying to confirm the superiority he believes their type of society has. This satire is effective because we are also able to read a little bit about how their society functions with the weaving of multiple points of view into one cohesive chapter. The interactions surrounding Lenina Crowne and Henry Foster and their co-workers offer readers some idea of how they think and act now as opposed to when we are living. The satire is also effective because we are able to compare the two societies in the areas that Mond believes we have madness and they have stability. The satire is also effective at making readers wonder if their society really is better than ours. If we should change the way we do things because this is all we have known and there could be a better way to do things. The satirical speech given by Mond highlights our shortcomings and insinuates that we should have changed earlier when their way of doing things was just beginning.
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