Huxley's a Brave New World vs the Tempest

Huxley's a Brave New World vs the Tempest

Huxley’s “Brave New World” a World where technology is ruled and feelings are neglected, and Shakespeare “The Tempest” where revenge and love is basis of the novel.
However by juxtaposing both Huxley “Brave New Word” and Shakespeare “The Tempest” they have many similarities between each other.
Evidently their would be no suitable title than what Huxley uses for his novel “Brave New World” especially when the structure of this new world is different than what any human has encountered. The opens in the ventral London “Hatching and Conditioning Centre” and the first chapter reads as there is a list of stunning scientific achievements: human cloning, rapid maturation, and prenatal conditioning. However through Huxley tone and diction this new world is no where near a utopia, but the exact opposite. This World could be classified as a “world of anonymous dehumanized people dominated by a government overwhelmingly powerful by the use of technology, the novel goes on and discusses the behavior of the world state citizens, combined with prenatal treatment. This creates individuals without individuality, each individual programmed to behave exactly like the next, which makes a society dominated by “unthinking obedience” and “infantile behavior”. The directors also have instilled in them the hatred of flowers and books because they tend to have no economic value. Ironically the novel came by Shakespeare historical book “The Tempest”
John a character not from the world state born “different” is interested in world sate being raised only by hearing his mother Linda’s fabulous stories of the World State, and literature from Shakespeare, which he uses the express his feelings which is sometimes thought of as comical within the World State. However Shakespeare characters in “The Tempest” and World State Characters provides an important parallel to one another. The two texts relate to each other on many levels. In the play, Prospero and his daughter Miranda are...

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