"Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this." - Brave New World, page 43.
Chapter 3 was a very challenging chapter for me. It was just as much confusing as it was tiring to read. But through all that confusion I found an anaphora! That will be helpful for my Literary Terms Journal. Anyway, this anaphora helped to reiterate the concept that readers discovered in earlier chapters and that I have already discussed. Leaders want every member of society to be completely submissive for the good of civilization. The only way these leaders feel will create these kinds of societal members is by psychologically conditioning them. The question I feel is very important is why these leaders link stability in a civilization with total submission. I believe it's because having total control is what most people who get just a taste of power seem to hunger for. Just a few examples would be Adolf Hitler or Hernando Cortes. Ok, sure I'll admit that the leaders from the A.F. time are not cruel and ruthless like Hitler or Cortes, but it doesn't change the fact that stability is just another name they call control, and this control is what gives these leaders happinness. The other part to that first quote says "no social stability without individual stability." This means "every one belongs to every one else." Families are prohibited and long-term relationships are definitely off-limits. I find this incredibly odd. How can anyone find true happiness if he or she is not able to find true love? Consequetly, how can an unhappy population be submissive? In the belief of the Controllers, a nonsubmissive society is an unstable one.
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