User talk:Kcrichmond

The article implies that Miranda in The Tempest is looking at drunken sailors when she says "O brave new world/That has such people in't." Those sailors have not arrived in the scene yet, and the drunks (none of them sailors) do not arrive until about 70 lines later. She is looking at a finely dressed King and six nobles. Prospero, her father, responds to Miranda, "'Tis new to thee," an answer that implies that he agrees that the world is "brave" (meaning "splendid"). Huxley is certainly using "brave" ironically, but we cannot be sure that Shakespeare intends it to be ironic. At this point in the play, probably not. Kcrichmond (talk) 17:16, 4 November 2013 (UTC)