Comments on: Daily Question # 293

By: Kamal Rathi

Kamal Rathi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:47:43 +0000

Aldous Huxley
Miranda (The Tempest)

“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures there are here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in’t!”
-Miranda, Act V, Scene I. The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

“I want God. I want poetry. I want real danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.”

-John the Savage, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

Shakespeare’s words spoken by Miranda, borrowed by Huxley, for the title of his most famous novel, have come to signify the horrors of a world where mankind has allowed technology to rule the human soul. Huxley’s novel, written in 1932, imagines a futuristic, totalitarian society where the individual exists for the state.

By: anil raghavan

anil raghavan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:57:28 +0000

brave new world by aldous huxley is coined from miranda’s speech in tempest

By: Ameya

Ameya — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:50:36 +0000

huxley borrowed the title for brave new world from an exclamation by miranda in “the tempest”

By: Subin G

Subin G — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:41:42 +0000

Aldous Huxley(A) and Miranda(B)

Connect- Is it that B’s words were on A’s Brave new world??????

By: Kaustuba

Kaustuba — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:32:39 +0000

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, title taken from Miranda’s quote in Tempest

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By: Rithwik

Rithwik — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:08:05 +0000

Brave New World novel by Aldous Huxley (A) and the ironic title derives from Miranda’s(B) speech in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act V, Scene

By: chaitra

chaitra — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:06:25 +0000

B is the painting Miranda- The Tempest by John William Waterhouse.
A is (guessing) Anthony hobson who wrote about the painter Waterhouse.

By: Varun

Varun — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:31:07 +0000

HUxley uncle and Miranda aunty from The Tempest
The “brave new world” title comes (I’m sure you know) from Miranda’s exclamation when she sees the island to which she arrives. It’s full of music, exotic trees and creatures, a “white” magician, etc, so she feels it is as if she has discovered a new world

By: Arun Hiregange

Arun Hiregange — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:22:37 +0000

Aldous Huxley / The Tempest (by Waterhouse) -> Brave New World

By: abhijeet

abhijeet — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:57:36 +0000

A-Aldus Huxley
B-Tempest

Brave New World’s ironic title derives from Miranda’s speech in Shakespeare’s The Tempest