BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 3 ]---|>

CHAPTER THREE

Ironic Allusions:

Polly Trotsky - - - Leon Trotsky
                                              
Bernard Marx - - - Karl Marx

Lenina - - - Vladimir Lenin
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All were revolutionaries in around the Communist movement, which Huxley named the characters this because of the irony of the classless Communist social system that Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky saw was right. This contrasts the story's society where the 'people' are classed into groups based on intelligence.
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Themes:

///Freedom & Confinement
///Isolation
///Identity
///Spirituality
///Suffering

Summary:
The Director takes the students outside to where there are whole bunch of children 'playing'. There is a talk about how games used to be played back in the 'Ford's' Day, however it is interrupted by a shadowy man coming into the field. The students are questionable, until the Director profoundly introduces the figure to the students. He is Mustapha Mond, one of the ten World controllers. 

Once he is introduced, he begins detailing previous life, how it was back when Ford was alive. Then a criss-cross of views begins to happen between Lenina and Fanny Crowne, Mustapha and the students, Bernard Marx and the Predestinator, Bernard Marx and himself (thoughts, and with the Hypnopaedic speaker whispering things into the sleepy heads of the Beta children.


Literary Elements:


Situational Irony:
Scattered throughout chapter. 
     -Children begin engaging in sexual 'play' at a very young age and it isn't considering strange.


     -People disgusted at the thought that humans used to give birth to one another


     -Fanny telling Lenina she needs to be more promiscious as seeing one man for a long time is not good. 


     -The antagonistic role mothers are portrayed as by Mustapha.


     -The disgust of family and how it was one of the main things wrong with the past's society.


     -The encouragement of a drug-like substance to be taken.


Metaphor:
     "His voice was a trumpet." The Controller's preaching's are blasted at the students like a trumpet, also making them feel larger, warmer...


Vocabulary:

Just because it's been used a lot:
Viviparous - (adj.) - Used to describe a being that has it's young develop inside the body instead of in an egg. (Thus, what mammals do.)


Why Chapter is Important:
The chapter goes into more depth through the background of the society. We meet one of the World Controllers for the first time, Mustapha Mond, who begins to talk to the students about the history of the new world. (Which he is allowed to since only the World Controllers are aloud to have literature. [Locked away in the safe])

We are also introduced to the antagonist and some other important characters for the first time. 


Through the erratic back and forth conversations between each set of characters in the society, it gives more insight into the confusion and just how crazy the society really is. However, it has a certain structure; Mustapha will begin to tell about the society of the past and how it used to have atrocious creatures such as mothers and relationships that consisted of just one person settling down with one person after a certain amount of years. Then this is put into action when the scene changes to Lenina and Fanny, where Lenina sort of embodies this monogamous relationship with a man named Henry, and is somewhat criticized by Fanny for not being as promiscious as the society intends it's citizens.

"No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stabilty,"