Presentation by Manuel De Castro, Irene Giusti, Tiziano Panella

1. Brave New World

3. The origin of the title Brave New World' s ironic title derives from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest : O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in't! This line is word-by-word quoted in the novel by John the Savage, when he first sees Lenina.The expression "brave new world" also appears in Émile Zola's Germinal and in Rudyard Kipling's 1919 poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings. Translations of the novel into other languages often allude to similar expressions used in an attempt to capture the same irony.

10. Totalitarism BNW is a benevolent dictatorship - or at least a benevolent oligarchy, for at its pinnacle there are ten world controllers. We get to meet its spokesman, the donnish Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller of Western Europe. Mond governs a society where all aspects of an individual's life, from conception and conveyor-belt reproduction onwards, are determined by the stateCitizens must not fall in love, marry, oBrave New World, then, is centred around control and manipulationr have their own kids.As ever, the fate of an individual depends on the interplay of Nature and Nurture, heredity and environment: but the utopian state apparatus controls bothOne of our deepest fears about the prospect of tampering with our natural biological endowment is that we will ourselves be controlled and manipulated by others.Huxley sows the fear that a future world state may rob us of the right to be unhappy pulated by others. Brave New World, then, is centred around control and manipulation. As ever, the fate of an individual depends on the interplay of Nature and Nurture, heredity and environment: but the utopian state apparatus controls both

12. Irene Giusti Tiziano Panella Manuel De Castro