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A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an obvious depiction of where society as a whole is headed in the mind of its author. A place where all morals are flipped upside down, where common ideals and beliefs shared by the current generation are skewed to present despicable acts done by the past. This world in which Huxley has created is our current society flipped on its head. Its’ citizens have taken the good, the bad and the ugly and have courageously gone against it to form a new society that is efficient, functioning, and altogether better in the sense of the citizens as a whole. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, his character Miranda describes such a world in her own eyes as “Oh, wonder, How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ’t” (The Tempest). Huxley chose to title his entire novel after this line of the play where Miranda is speaking of the world she has missed out on her entire life and is now finally getting a taste of. She has high hopes for this new world because it seems new and exciting; however, just like John in the novel she most likely comes to the decision that she is happiest with what she is most comfortable with. This is just like what is also described in the short movie that we watched as a class, only one thing, the main idea of that video has also been turned on its head in current society. The idea behind Sir Ken Robinson’s video was to create a new society in education and to allow it to seep into the current curriculum of educators. It seems however that teachers and professors are reluctant to do so because of such examples as John from A Brave New World, or Miranda from The Tempest.  As a society we are afraid to venture into new ideas because we think that no matter how good they look at first glance, we will always eventually recognize that we are happiest as is. We will never be willing to take risks for the good of humanity because we are much too scared.