Themes In Huxley's The Right Of Perfection: Brave

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“’ [W]here would Edmund be nowadays? Sitting in a pneumatic chair, with his arm around a girl’s waist, sucking away at his sex-hormone chewing-gum and looking at the feelies. The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from me.’ ‘Are you sure?’ asked the Savage. ‘Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn’t been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who’s wounded and bleeding to death? The gods are just. Haven’t they used his pleasant vices as an instrument to degrade him?’ ‘As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he’s perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you’ve got to stick to one set of postulates. You can’t play Electro-magnetic Golf according to the rules of the centrifugal Bumble-puppy’” (208, Huxley) The Right of Perfection …show more content…

The World Controller and John are alone in the Controller’s study, filled with “pornographic old books” (204). They begin to argue, first about the existence of God, then John adds in a bit of Shakespeare like he always does. Mond and the Savage discuss the positives and negatives of religion, until the Savage alludes to Edmund in Shakespeare’s King Lear, the illegitimate son of the Earl, who betrays and manipulates many people in the play. In the quote, it is only Mustapha Mond

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