![]() He too was forgetting the unpleasant realities of the situation. And if it were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello." "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. "And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "That's what we've all been wanting to write," said Helmholtz, breaking a long silence. "Well then," he said, after a pause, "something new that's like Othello, and that they could understand." He remembered how Helmholtz had laughed at Romeo and Juliet. "Why don't you let them see Othello instead?" "Nice tame animals, anyhow," the Controller murmured parenthetically. "Goat and monkeys!" Only in Othello's words could he find an adequate vehicle for his contempt and hatred. Those plays where there's nothing but helicopters flying about and you feel the people kissing." He made a grimace. "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. "Because it's old that's the chief reason. In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else. “But why is it prohibited?" asked the Savage. Brave New World: The Controller and The Savage ![]() ![]() We begin with a visit to Huxley's Brave New World, where one of the world controllers, Mustapha Mond, is having a conversation with John The Savage and his two companions Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson. ![]()
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