The world motto: Community, Identity, Stability didn’t fit for him. He first of all hated what everyone else liked, and was also physically different. On the other hand, Bernard was a man who was different. The next characters, Fanny and Assistant Predestinator, seem to be flat characters, who just came out to show the contrast and the relationship between the important characters. He seeks more knowledge and information for him to decide the rights and the wrongs for himself. Bibles, poetry – Ford knew what.” The fact that such rumours were half-true, and that the Controller was even familiar with books that may be considered to be a book against the state, shows that the Controller is at least not just following the rules because he was told. The phrase in page 30 does well to describe how he was a round and considering man, “There were those strange rumours of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the controller’s study.
He not only had the knowledge of history, but also had the wisdom to try to understand and consider the attributes and the flaws of both political systems of their world and ours. Even just by reading chapter three, we could see that the Controller was a round character who was not like other regular flat characters in their world. The entrance of the Controller was enough to show how high he was in the social class. Some new characters that came out in this chapter were the Controller, Fanny, Assistant Predestinator, and Bernard. If chapter one and two were about describing the physical and cultural setting of the book, chapter three, by showing the readers the reactions and the characters’ way of talking, was able to show the readers the actual people’s way of life, and thinking shaped by the physical and cultural background settings of the world they are living in.
By listening to the Controller and DHC recalling and explaining our current lives, and watching the students’ reactions, the readers are able to see the contrast between the book’s way of thinking and ours, and better understand the setting of the book. The new way that chapter three adopted further more represents the differences between the characters’ view and ours, by letting us hear them talking about us. By going through events like children playing erotic games, talking about families as if they are strange things, and talking about pregnancy substitutes, the author forces the readers to realize the differences between their world and ours, and to throw questions at themselves. Chapter three consists of series of events that contradict our current common beliefs. Adding onto the last two chapters, chapter three contributes by explaining the settings to the readers in a new way.
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