Huxley and Shakespeare “Do they read Shakespeare?” » » asked the Savage as they walked, on their way to the biochemical laboratories, in front of the school library. “Certainly not,” said the director, blushing. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the allusions to William Shakespeare and his works highlight the contrast between Brave New World and the world of Shakespeare's time and even today. Reinforcing the meaning of the work, the allusions and the characters' reactions to the allusions reveal the positive and negative aspects of our society today. The main characters of “Brave New World,” Lenina Crowne, Henry Foster and Bernard Marx, live in a futuristic world where babies are mass-produced in laboratories and raised to fulfill various functions in society. In order to ensure community, stability and identity, the basis of their world, these functions must be fulfilled and solitary entertainment is discouraged. is entertaining, the people of “Brave New World” rather have “sensations” to have fun and demonstrate the difference....