And the award for favorite character goes to......

Now that I have covered all my necessary literary terms blogs it's time for some fun ones! Well as fun as AP Lit blogs can be when you have two hours to complete them before leaving for a family camping outing (one of which I'm not really looking forward to). But I digress (shout out to Mr. Grimes). So throughout this novel we come across several characters that are less than friendly and to be honest extremely predictable. Bernard Marx groveling all the way up until the end of novel kind of made me want to smack him across the face. But then again I don't have to live in a world where my life has already been predetermined for me... or am I? Oh well that's an issue for another blog. But among all these mundane characters there was one that I was significantly intrigued with: Mustapha Mond. Everything about this character fascinates me from his name (which has a striking resemblance to Mufasa from The Lion King, one of my all time favorite movies) to his demeanor which I just can't seem to wrap my mind around. I continue trying to contemplate whether or not I think he is brilliant or insane or both. Whether he's malicious  or sinister or simply doing his job. Whether he believes that he truly deserves the power that has been bestowed upon him and that he knows exactly what he's doing or if it was simply a choice made to avoid being sent away and he's making decisions as he goes along trying to keep his head above water.  He is the one character that I feel held a certain element of mystery throughout the entire book but still had enough background that I became enticed in his personality. My only disappointment involving him is that I didn't get to know him better, but maybe that's exactly why I love him so much. At points he seemed to be the all knowing voice of reason but at others I still questioned how he could be so foolish. The vast amount of angles that you could come at this character make him by far the best character in my opinion. In fact in one of those hypothetical games where you could invite three people over for dinner living or dead, fictional or real, just to pick their brains more, I think I'd seriously consider inviting him.