"fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for ""The Observer"" included ""Brave New World"" chronologically at number 53 in ""the top 100 greatest novels of all time"", and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. ""Brave New World""'s title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"", Act V, Scene I: Translations of the title often allude to similar expressions used in domestic works of literature: the French edition of the work is entitled ""Le Meilleur des mondes"" (""The Best"
"(1932) must be partly derived from ""We"". However, in a letter to Christopher Collins in 1962, Huxley says that he wrote ""Brave New World"" as a reaction to H. G. Wells's utopias long before he had heard of ""We"". Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing ""Player Piano"" (1952), he ""cheerfully ripped off the plot of ""Brave New World"", whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's ""We"""". Ayn Rand's ""Anthem"" (1938) has many significant similarities to ""We"" (detailed here), although it is stylistically and thematically different. Vladimir Nabokov's novel ""Invitation to a Beheading"" may suggest a dystopian society"
"""Brave New World"" fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for ""The Observer"" included ""Brave New World"" chronologically at number 53 in ""the top 100 greatest novels of all time"", and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The World State is built upon the principles of Henry Ford's assembly line: mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods. While the World State lacks any supernatural-based religions, Ford himself is revered as the creator of their society but not"
"Brave New World Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State of genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a utopian society that goes challenged only by a single outsider. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in an essay, ""Brave New World Revisited"" (1958), and with ""Island"" (1962), his final novel. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked ""Brave New World"""
"the most popular optimist utopian novels of the time, Huxley sought to provide a frightening vision of the future. Huxley referred to ""Brave New World"" as a ""negative utopia"", somewhat influenced by Wells's own ""The Sleeper Awakes"" (dealing with subjects like corporate tyranny and behavioural conditioning) and the works of D. H. Lawrence. George Orwell believed that ""Brave New World"" must have been partly derived from the 1921 novel ""We"" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. However, in a 1962 letter to Christopher Collins, Huxley says that he wrote ""Brave New World"" long before he had heard of ""We"". According to ""We"" translator"
"A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine is a 2009 biographical play by the English playwright Trevor Griffiths on the life of Thomas Paine. Other characters in it include Benjamin Franklin (who appears both as the historical figure and as a narrator), George Washington, Edmund Burke, John Adams and Georges Danton. Its first half tells of Paine's involvement in the American Revolution and its second half of his involvement in the French Revolution, ending with his funeral. The play began life as a two-part screenplay for Richard Attenborough ; though never"
"New Play Award. The play is set in London, at various dates and locations from 1598 onward. In the ""Rules of the Universe"" that precede the script, it is noted that the oppression of the bears in the play is because the humans have wrongly presumed their own superiority, though the bears are not actually inferior. The bears should have little visible differences from the humans. The rules also note that William Shakespeare is the least important person in the play. ""Gotama"" tells the story of Buddha's early life. The protagonist, Siddhatta Gotama, is a wealthy prince until he meets"
"World State in Brave New World The World State is the primary setting of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel ""Brave New World"". In the novel, the World State is a unified government which administers the entire planet, with a few isolated exceptions. The motto of the World State is ""Community, Identity, Stability"". The citizens of the World State use a calendar which takes the year 1908 AD (""0 AF"" – ""After Ford"") as its epoch, as this was the first year in which the Model T automobile was produced by the Ford Motor Company. According to the novel, the ""Nine Years'"
"Brave New World (role-playing game) Brave New World is a role-playing game originally released by Pinnacle Entertainment Group in 1999. The game was later sold to Alderac Entertainment Group in 2000. The game is an alternate history superhero game set in a fascist United States of America living in a perpetual state of martial law since the 1960s. Inspired by the ""Kingdom Come"" and """" comic storylines, ""X-Men"", ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"", and the political and social upheavals of the 1990s, the game depicts renegade superheroes fighting a corrupt and evil government. Shortly before Pinnacle and AEG dissolved their relationship, Matt Forbeck"
"of All Worlds""), an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and satirised in ""Candide, Ou l'Optimisme"" by Voltaire (1759). Huxley wrote ""Brave New World"" while living in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, in the four months from May to August 1931. By this time, Huxley had already established himself as a writer and social satirist. He was a contributor to ""Vanity Fair"" and ""Vogue"" magazines, and had published a collection of his poetry (""The Burning Wheel"", 1916) and four successful satirical novels: ""Crome Yellow"" (1921), ""Antic Hay"" (1923), ""Those Barren Leaves"" (1925), and ""Point Counter Point"" (1928). ""Brave New"
"toured the UK and played an extended run in London's West End. The play opened on Broadway in 2017. In the decades since the publication of ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"", there have been numerous comparisons to Aldous Huxley's novel ""Brave New World"", which had been published 17 years earlier, in 1932. They are both predictions of societies dominated by a central government and are both based on extensions of the trends of their times. However, members of the ruling class of ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" use brutal force, torture and mind control to keep individuals in line, while rulers in ""Brave New World"" keep"
"may have been influenced by ""Candide"" are dystopian science-fiction works. Armand Mattelart, a French critic, sees ""Candide"" in Aldous Huxley's ""Brave New World"", George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" and Yevgeny Zamyatin's ""We"", three canonical works of the genre. Specifically, Mattelart writes that in each of these works, there exist references to ""Candide""s popularisation of the phrase ""the best of all possible worlds"". He cites as evidence, for example, that the French version of ""Brave New World"" was entitled (). Readers of ""Candide"" often compare it with certain works of the modern genre the Theatre of the Absurd. Haydn Mason, a Voltaire"
"All the world's a stage ""All the world's a stage"" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"", spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 138. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, Pantalone, and old age, facing imminent death. It is one of Shakespeare's most frequently quoted passages. The comparison of the world to a stage and people to actors"
"may variously be examined as (1) a polemic against the optimistic scientific socialism of H. G. Wells, whose works Zamyatin had previously published, and with the heroic verses of the (Russian) Proletarian Poets, (2) as an example of Expressionist theory, and (3) as an illustration of the archetype theories of Carl Jung as applied to literature. George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's ""Brave New World"" (1932) must be partly derived from ""We"". However, in a 1962 letter to Christopher Collins, Huxley says that he wrote ""Brave New World"" as a reaction to H.G. Wells' utopias long before he had heard"
"English-speaking world is the Latin phrase """"Et tu, Brute?"""" (""You too, Brutus?""); this derives from William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"" (1599), where it actually forms the first half of a macaronic line: """"Et tu, Brute?"" Then fall, Caesar."" This has no basis in historical fact. Shakespeare was making use of a phrase already in common use at the time. According to Plutarch, after the assassination, Brutus stepped forward as if to say something to his fellow senators not involved in the plot; they, however, fled the building. Brutus and his companions then marched to the Capitol while crying out to their"
"long predated Shakespeare. Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, wrote one of the earliest versions of this line in his “Satire 3”: “All of Greece is a stage, and every Greek’s an actor.” Richard Edwards' play ""Damon and Pythias"", written in the year Shakespeare was born, contains the lines, ""Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage / Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage"". When it was founded in 1599 Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe, may have used the motto ' (All the world plays the actor), the Latin text of which is derived from a 12th-century"
"Phrases from Hamlet in common English William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"" has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous ""To be, or not to be"" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out (""Note: all are second quarto except as noted""): Act I, scene 1: Act I, scene 2: Act I, scene 3: Act I, scene 4: Act I, scene 5: Act II, scene 2: ""Caviar to the general"" Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 431–440 Act III, scene 1: Act III, scene"
"world. Shakespeare sings the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, when asked about his view of death (the song is titled ""Fear No More""). ""Fear no more the heat of the sun"" is the line that Winnie and her husband are trying to remember in Samuel Beckett's ""Happy Days"" as they sit exposed to the elements. Cymbeline Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (""c."" AD 10–14) and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although"
"many of Shakespeare's most famous speeches (such as ""All the world's a stage"", ""too much of a good thing"" and ""A fool! A fool! I met a fool in the forest""). Jaques provides a sharp contrast to the other characters in the play, always observing and disputing the hardships of life in the country. Historically, critical response has varied, with some critics finding the play a work of great merit and some finding the work of lesser quality than other Shakespearean works. The play remains a favourite among audiences and has been adapted for radio, film, and musical theatre. The"
"a play"" in 1520. T. W. Craik suggests a date of 1508 while MacCracken offers sometime in the late 15th century. The World and the Child The World and the Child () is an anonymous English morality play. Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem ""The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life"", from which the play borrows significantly while reducing the number of characters. It is thought to have influenced William Shakespeare's ""Henry IV, Part 1"". The earliest surviving edition (printed by Wynkyn de Worde) is dated 17 July 1522, although the play is believed to have"
"1600, and several later writers have used parts of it in their own texts. Parts of the speech appear in films such as ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), ""Tombstone"" (1993), ""Renaissance Man"" (1994), ""This Is England"" (2006), and ""Their Finest"" (2017). It has also been used in television series such as ""Rough Riders"" (1997), ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", ""The Black Adder"" and ""Doctor Who"". St Crispin's Day Speech The St Crispin's Day speech is from Shakespeare's history play ""Henry V"", in Scene iii 18–67. In the speech, which fell on Saint Crispin's Day, Henry V urged his men"
"World"" was Huxley's fifth novel and first dystopian work. Huxley said that ""Brave New World"" was inspired by the utopian novels of H. G. Wells, including ""A Modern Utopia"" (1905), and ""Men Like Gods"" (1923). Wells's hopeful vision of the future's possibilities gave Huxley the idea to begin writing a parody of the novels, which became ""Brave New World"". He wrote in a letter to Mrs. Arthur Goldsmith, an American acquaintance, that he had ""been having a little fun pulling the leg of H. G. Wells"", but then he ""got caught up in the excitement of [his] own ideas."" Unlike"
"John, as has Lenina. As a result, Bernard follows Lenina into exile from society. Director Mustapha Mond looks for Bernard at the next meeting, and is handed a note. The messenger explains how Bernard got away from society (by authorizing a trip for himself). Mond laughs out loud to himself, indicating that he will not pursue them. The final scene shows a beach with Lenina and Bernard. They appear to be playing with their natural born daughter on the shore. Brave New World (1998 film) Brave New World is a 1998 television movie loosely based on Aldous Huxley's novel of"
"the content of the play is clearly a message to James, the new Scottish King of England. Likewise, the critic Andrew Hadfield noted the contrast the play draws between the saintly King Edward the Confessor of England who has the power of the royal touch to cure scrofula and whose realm is portrayed as peaceful and prosperous vs. the bloody chaos of Scotland. James in his 1598 book ""The Trew Law of Free Monarchies"" had asserted that kings are always right, if not just, and his subjects own him total loyalty at all times, writing that even if a king"
"based primarily upon Palingenius' book ""Zodiacus Vitae"", a school text he would have studied at the Stratford Grammar School, which also enumerates stages of human life. He also takes elements from Ovid and other sources known to him. All the world's a stage ""All the world's a stage"" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"", spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 138. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as"
"precisely to ""Brave New World"" by the British writer Aldous Huxley. As in that work, there coexist two dissimilar, segregated societies, one developed and the other backward. The Hins are a people who have solved all economic problems: Production and usage of goods is based on need instead of money, and the standard of living is impeccable. The Hins live without any kind of government or administrative body, as their belief is that such would only hinder production. They lead their lives according to the ""pure reality of existence,"" which they call kazo. They experience no emotions, love, beauty or"
"The Blazing World The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It can also be read as a utopian work. As its full title suggests, ""Blazing World"" is a fanciful depiction of a satirical, utopian kingdom in another world (with different stars in the sky) that can be reached via the North Pole. It is ""the only known work of utopian fiction by a woman"
"praised ""Brave New World"" as ""The most accomplished novel Huxley has yet written"", Joseph Needham lauded it as ""Mr. Huxley's remarkable book"", and Bertrand Russell also praised it, stating, ""Mr. Aldous Huxley has shown his usual masterly skill in ""Brave New World."""" However, ""Brave New World"" also received negative responses from other contemporary critics, although his work was later embraced. In an article in the 4 May 1935 issue of the ""Illustrated London News"", G. K. Chesterton explained that Huxley was revolting against the ""Age of Utopias"". Much of the discourse on man's future before 1914 was based on the"
"circulation in England in the Burbages' time. ""Totus mundus agit histrionem"" was, according to this explanation, therefore adopted as the theatre's motto. Another allusion, familiar to the contemporary theatre-goer, would have been to ""Teatrum Mundi"", a meditation by the twelfth-century classicist and philosopher John of Salisbury, in his ""Policraticus"", book three. In either case, there would have been a familiar understanding of the classical derivation without the adoption of a formal motto. It seems likely that the link between the supposed motto and the Globe was made only later, originating with the industrious early Shakespeare biographer William Oldys, who claimed"
"for the audience's approval. The play is based on a tale (3.9) of Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"". Shakespeare may have read an English translation of the tale in William Painter's ""Palace of Pleasure"". The name of the play expresses the proverb ""All's well that ends well"", which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good. There is no evidence that ""All's Well"" was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism."
"Natasha Randall, Orwell believed that Huxley was lying. The scientific futurism in ""Brave New World"" is believed to be cribbed from ""Daedalus"" by J. B. S. Haldane. The events of the Depression in Britain in 1931, with its mass unemployment and the abandonment of the gold currency standard, persuaded Huxley to assert that stability was the ""primal and ultimate need"" if civilisation was to survive the present crisis. The ""Brave New World"" character Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe, is named after Sir Alfred Mond. Shortly before writing the novel, Huxley visited Mond's technologically advanced plant near Billingham,"
"actions in Europe, up until Japan's capitulation and the war's end. The events are based on Ambrose's research and recorded interviews with Easy Company veterans. The series took literary license, adapting history for dramatic effect and series structure. The characters portrayed are based on members of Easy Company. Some of the men were recorded in contemporary interviews, which viewers see as preludes to each episode, with the men's real identities revealed in the finale. The title for the book and series comes from the St Crispin's Day Speech in William Shakespeare's play ""Henry V"", delivered by King Henry before the"
"and the dreary existence of the working class. In the novel ""Brave New World"", written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, a class system is prenatally determined with Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, with the lower classes having reduced brain-function and special conditioning to make them satisfied with their position in life. Outside of this society there also exist several human settlements that exist in the ""conventional"" way but which the class system describe as ""savages"". In ""Ypsilon Minus"" by Herbert W. Franke, people are divided into numerous alphabetically ranked groups. Some fictional dystopias, such as ""Brave New World"" and"