Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, completed ten years before in 1921, has been suggested as an influence, but Huxley stated that he had not known of the book at the time. Huxley referred to Brave New World as a "negative utopia" (see dystopia), somewhat influenced by Wells' own The Sleeper Awakes and the works of D. Contrary to the most popular optimist utopian novels of the time, Huxley sought to provide a frightening vision of the future. Wells' optimistic vision of the future gave Huxley the idea to begin writing a parody of the novel, which became Brave New World. Brave New World was Huxley's fifth novel and first attempt at a dystopian work.īrave New World was inspired by the H. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines, had published a collection of his poetry ( The Burning Wheel, 1916) and four successful satirical novels: Crome Yellow in 1921, Antic Hay in 1923, Those Barren Leaves in 1925 and Point Counter Point in 1928. By this time, Huxley had already established himself as a writer and social satirist. Translations of the novel into other languages often allude to similar expressions used in domestic works of literature in an attempt to capture the same irony: the French edition of the work is entitled Le Meilleur des Mondes (The Best of All Worlds), an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.Īldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 while he was living in France and England (a British writer, he moved to California in 1937). However, a derivation not only more recent but more appropriate occurs in Rudyard Kipling's 1919 poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings: "And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins "When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins. (Translated from the French by Roger Pearson, p.
Huxley's title also appears in Émile Zola's "Germinal" (1885): "He laughed at his earlier idealism, his schoolboy vision of a brave new world in which justice would reign and men would be brothers." The ironic title ultimately derives from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I: "O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in't!" (December 2008)īrave New World is Huxley's most famous novel. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references (ideally, using inline citations). This section needs additional citations for verification.
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