The Wanting Seed

In Anthony burgess The Wanting Seed, the flooring starts off, in what is write outn to the main character, Tristram, as the Pel figure. Tristram is a history teacher and knows mostly all there is to know about history. According to Tristram, governances go through three phases the Pelphase, the Interphase, and the Gusphase. Tristram believes that like almost e very(prenominal)thing else, political science is cyclical. The Pelphase is a succession in the governing body and society where the people are prevailing to ruin themselves, their surroundings and their country.The people dont just work for themselves they work together. Over tribe has al offices been a problem in the futuristic London that Burgess portrays. God has become a myth even though or so still practice their religion. God has turned into some sort of Santa article because everyone is working to better the problems that they and the government are having. The government suggests that homosexuality could ser vicing the population troubles, but they dont enforce it or overhear it law. citizenry occupy the choice to have minorren or be homosexual. The government hands out rations of food every week because the crops arent exploitation and overpopulation is so prevalent. The rations are just enough to keep the people broad(a) and content. When the government realizes that nothing is working out and the crops still wont arrive and overpopulation is still a giant problem, they give up the current meanss and move on to new ways of governing. This brings the Interphase along. The Interphase is black and white compared to the Pelphase.It is a transition phase where things must be broken in say to fix them. When the government realized that giving people the choice to have children or be homosexual isnt working in everyones favor and the crops are still arent outgrowth, they made it mandatory to all be gay or have only one child and in addition to that the food rations have gotten smal ler. Police (Greyboys) walked the beat in large groups looking for people that were breaking laws or people that werent. pickings them to jail for nothing was fine with the Greyboys.Innocent people were thrown in jail and kept in jail just by cosmos in the wrong place at the wrong time. With all of the growing animosity towards the Greyboys and the government, people start to question and revolt. Nobody wants to go starved the straights dont want to go gay the families dont want to break up. The Interphase didnt last too long because of how disadvantageously the citizens felt about it. People were rising once against the government and demanding their rights back. The government couldnt take the pressure so they just ended up doing nothing.They literally did nothing. They left it up the people. With that decision came the Gusphase. The Gusphase was a wild and crazy time. People were going crazy in the streets, killing and looting. The government had no say-so over anything anym ore. Hungry groups of people started attacking and cooking up Greyboys. They were creating easy lay cannibalistic dining clubs and taking part in intense orgies. The government lost so much of the control it once had, all of the prisons were emptied and the prisoners gravel free.With so much chaos going on, people were forced to defy for themselves and it became survival of the fittest. During all of the madness, priests and bishops were clamorously to preach the word of their God again and that is what people held on to in this time of madness. The Gusphase, just like the Interphase, didnt last long. The government eventually regained control of the population and things were back to the way they started, Pelphase. In the Pelphase after the horrible Gusphase, things were different than before.People were now aloud to have children and homosexuality wasnt pressured upon the people. On the surface, it seemed as if the government has learned from their mistakes but under the surf ace things have taken a very deadly turn. The soldiery had most of the control in the government now. The army went town to town tricking people into joining the army. After the people went through long and rigorous training they were sent off to the front lines in western Ireland. They werent fighting the Irish however they were fighting separate British men and women.The government set up elaborate shows to stool that there was a war and when it came down to the actual battle the dickens sides of British would clash in a bloody death match. At the end of the fight, officers from the army, who were in on the whole scheme, executed the survivors so know one would find out about their evil idea of population control. Thanks to Tristrams smarts and instincts, he was able to survive. He made his way back to the army headquarters and told them that he knew the whole plot. They didnt compensate him any mind, gave him his discharge check, and sent him on his way.He ended up going bac k to where he started before all of the crazy clock London experienced in the past couple of years. He get a job as a war history teacher and bought a new flat with his discharge money. After he was colonized he found Beatrice-Joanna and his twin sons. Things finally came full circle for Tristram. In may ways, Tristrams journey was a lot like the phases that the government went through. He had endured the brunt of each phase. He experienced the worst that each phase had to offer a human being. He survived and lived happily again.