While Mustapha Mond rationalizes that the happiness in the New World is preferable to the "high art" of the old world, it is easy for Mond to say this since he can have the best of both worlds, as he informs Bernard Marx:
"But as I make the laws here, I can also break them. With impunity....Which I'm afraid you can't do."
When the Savage says that he wants discomfort, God, poetry, danger, freedom, goodness, and sin; Mond tells him that he is claiming the right to be unhappy.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome." he said.
Clearly, Mustapha--which means "the chosen one"--has accepted the "synthetic standards" of Community, Identity, and Stability, an artificial world that maintains a docility among the citizens that allows him security in his role as Controller, a position in which he can violate the law and enjoy some personal freedom, anyway. Once a gifted scientist and one of a few who can exert free will, Mond made a choice to be Controller instead of a dissident like some other Alpha-Pluses. Having read Shakespeare and other literature as well as history, Mond is aware of morality, but he chooses to employ his morality and intelligence to the amoral and conditioned goals of the utopia of the New World [Mond is a derivative of the French word monde, meaning world].
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