B.N.W. Ch2 &3 Analysis

Most of these two chapters involve the background to how this brave new world begun. This background knowledge involves how new members of society(they can hardly be called human) are born, wait, I mean decanted, to how this world compares to the premodern one. The world in which we felt everything. Every emotion, good and bad, that gave us a sense of self and humanity. The price for stability was humanity. The price was to stop feeling and have our only desires and wants be satisfied with having another or taking a soma holiday. The third chapter can be a little confusing for anyone who has not read the novel before. Throughout this chapter there is a juxtaposition/melting of three different scenes. There is  the hyperbolic recounts of the DHC and Mustafa Mond of the premodern world, the scene of Henry being the pristine Alpha citizen he is, the scene of Bernard's thoughts of inadequacy, and the scene of Lenina'e unconventional thoughts of relationships and people. Throughout this chapter the scenes coalesce to provide context of this new world and how unconventional thinking is chastised while the mundane human relationship of this world is represented by Henry. In a way I can see how the world we live in can be unstable given the views of Mustapha Mond.