Brave New World and Ambivalent Dystopias | How to Fall in Love with Classics

The term 'brave new world' is used ironically by Shakespeare too - which virtually no-one who uses the term seems to understand. If memory serves, Miranda uses it when she looks at another human being for the first time (excluding herself and her father). Her father says something like, 'it is new to thee'. Ironic, because these other human beings are the ones who deposed him and stole his dukedom. She only sees their beauty; he sees the evil beneath the beauty.