Mustapha Mond: Summary

"ART, SCIENCE–you seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness; when they were alone. " Savage said. When I first read this sentence I was very confused about what it was meant by, but now I get it because later on there is a controller. There is no more religion. The controllers are who/what the society is looking up to. Savage never took soma because he wanted to feel normal and be mad or sad "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here...Isn't there something in living dangerously?" Savage wanted to live dangerously by not taking the some. The soma made all mankind's madness and emotions go away, it made people jolly and full of giggles. Mustapha Mond and his controllers made a pill that basically is this is the drug that people take in half-gramme tablets to get away from it all. It produces a joyful effect in which all bad things are simply whisked away. …show more content…
It seems that Savage had something horrible or significant happen to him for him not to do the "V.P.S." and take the soma. That's where the conflict begins since Savage isn't taking what the controller is giving him they will try and force him to take it because towards the end of the story Mustapha Mond and the controller are suggesting that Savage should take the pill because he is unhappy. That's what Mustapha Mond and the controller's don't understand, you don't need a pill to take away all your worries. You can't just run away from everything because when the soma "wears off" your right back dealing with what you started with from the