Brave New World- Manipulation

                 In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Mustapha Mond in the third chapter says, "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."  He is referring to society and how a man need to make sure things stay on track so that it doesn’t go off their “axles”.  In his eyes he believes that manipulating and developing people to fit their designed job is the only way to keep the wheels turning.  The people, right at the moment of conception, are developed and trained to fit a certain style of life.  They are trained to be happy in the life they are suppose to life. 

 The Controllers are the men who tend to the wheels.  Society views them as the people who keep the peace, but they are truly the once that are manipulating the people.  They make the past look terrible.  Mustapha Mond describes the past as a appalling, and inhabitable. “Home, home–a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.”  Through this description the children believe that they have evolved and are superior to the past.  Yet they were only designed that way.  Through the manipulation of science they were born to be “superior”.  They are then trained and practically brain washed to except any of the ideas the government wants the children to believe in.  They are expected to exert their emotions and feelings through desire, since “every one belongs to every one else”.  It seems outrages for them to have an exclusive relationship with anyone.  Most don’t understand the concept of family and restricting your self off to one person and then having emotional ties to that family. When Lenina tells Fanny that she has only been with Henry Foster for the last couple of months Fanny is in shock.  She believes that isn’t healthy and encourages Lenina to try having other men as well. In Lenina’s society having that “exclusive” relationship with Henry is unnatural and frowned upon.