In Act V, Scene I of Shakespeare's The Tempest, the character Miranda declares:
"O wonder! How many Godly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O Brave new world! That has such people in it!"
It's perhaps the only line of Shakespeare to be made famous by
someone else, for Brave New World is not associated with Prospero's
Island of sprites, magic and wondrous noises, but with Aldous
Huxley's dystopia of eugenics, soma and zero gravity tennis. A world,
incidentally, upon which literary references to Shakespeare would be
entirely lost.
Brave New World is a lurid, satirical dystopia in which the hopes and
fears of the 1930s are writ large and yet the book seems uncannily
prescient about our own time. But why did Huxley feel the need to
write it and is Brave New World really as dystopian as we are led to believe?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml
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