Manipulate this!!!

The quoted passage “Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment" spoken by Mustapha Mond fully encapsulates the system of values among members of society in A Brave New World. Within the novel, human beings are engineered from conception to fit a certain social class, do a certain job, and feel different things. It is fully manipulated by men to create beings that can fit into a society that functions with the basic background lining Mond’s quote. Different classes of people are engineered to do certain things that allow society to function, this is done to allow people to be content with what they are given in life, and in turn they become focused and stable. This is exactly what is wanted by the Controller, Mustapha Mond. He states “No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individualized stability”. The only way for stability to be present among all humans helping the society to function, is to manipulate such human emotions of family, monogamy, impulse, feeling, and desire. This is partly done through the alteration of DNA at conception, but mostly done after birth with different methods of manipulation. Some examples given within the novel pertaining to manipulation of personal emotions include elctro-shock therapy, loud obnoxious noises, and the principle of sleep teaching, or hypnopaedia. Through these methods, people could be controlled and brainwashed into believing themselves happy in whatever state they were placed. The people’s happiness led to a personal stability among individual citizens, which in turn led to a societal stability for all. This is the idea behind Mustapha Mond’s stable society, and ultimately behind all of the members of the Brave New World society.