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Shakespeare’s play The Tempest was the origin of the expression “brave new world” that has since been used prominently by Rudyard Kipling and Aldous Huxley. Huxley used it as the title for his novel (published
in 1932) that depicted a world populated by five castes (alpha through
epsilon) of genetically stratified slaves, all ruled over by a tiny
elite of ten “World Controllers”; while Kipling used the expression to
describe a faux Utopian social condition that existed before an
apocalypse, in his 1919 poem ‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings‘:
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