"The Tempest"
This is the scenario of the "brave new world". The title Aldous Huxley chose for his book sounds ironic and sarcastic, as it is taken from a passage from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest". In this tragedy Miranda, son of the magician Prospero, marvels at the beauty and extraordinary nature of the world he is discovering for the first time: "O wonder! How many godly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in't". “O wonder! How many divine creatures do I see here! What a splendid humanity this is! O fearless new world, which hosts such men ”.
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