“Dystopian novels are just the point were utopian novels fail, they are just centered in the intensity of the only error of a surreal, perfect, systematic world”
-Guillermo Palacio

Stories full of symbolism, imagery and conflicts based between liberty and domination, surrounded English literature by the 40’s and 50’s decades. Novels such as “1984” by George Orwell, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, and “We” by Zamyatin; show us the dark futuristic vision that many of the world’s population had stick in their heads. After a cruel and sinister time in the worldwide history as it have been, the World War II.

Novels such as the ones mention were classified as dystopian novels, used as manuals for the unliving world that was coming out to float. Dystopian were opposite to utopian communities novels such as "the Giver” by Lois Lowry and "Utopia" by Thomas Moro didn’t describe a better world, but a worst and sick tomorrow. Taken from the “Oxford English Dictionary”, dystopia is an imaginary place or condition in which everything is bad. Though it is also a current from the English literature that can be express as: the intention of it, is to show us in a remarkable way what the oxford dictionary definition states.

Nevertheless, not only by reading the definition in the dictionary we can guarantee the true intentions of these novels. In my deep investigation I have become to explore and know the fundamental concepts of this current taking in account the many critics, they receive since the very first dystopian novel was ever write.

This masterpiece from the I, so-called “Pessimist Futurist” movement were so widely important, that reassure us how social, political and economical contexts have a very strong influence in literature. Plus how probably this novels represent that stage of mankind history better than many of our actual history books. And it’s wise to know that dystopian stories weren’t taken too much seriously when they were released.

Dystopian plots were state as satires. Although they aren’t ordinary satires, by their time these books were called “Satirical Pamphlets”. And why couldn’t they be call satirical pamphlets? If they just represent the most evil destination for our race, making fun of what humans had lived during war time, but at the same time making us reflect and fear to become what these authors write. In fact a critical, name Bernard Richards once said “Dystopias are useful because they warn us about what might happen”.

Along with it, who would not be fearful to read during the fifties, the book “1984”? I mean, this book is Orwell’s masterpiece and to read about a genius who doubts about a good blossom future is a little bit scary. Plus his proofreading just illustrate you the vision of a guy from that period of time, imagining how the world will be settle in the year 1984. Published in 1949, this book becomes the most known dystopian novel in the whole world. His plot, as the two other books tries to deal with a world rule by governments whose policy is absolute power and domination. Additionally governments only hope, is to keep the people satisfied with their oppressed lives.

Characteristics such as the last one can be identified in the novels. For example the use of technology to create bad causes for mankind, was present in all three books, and for me this come also from the technological development started in the first decades of the 20th century. Maybe the bad implementation of technology in the books was like a kind of riot against it. Maybe they wanted to show that at the end technology will finally beat man, and will hurt us. These topics install in the books as bugs you’ll have to look with a magnified glass, were camouflaged and treated from a very human point of view, points of view that doesn’t finish here.

For example in “1984”, to avoid oppressions and rising from the people, the government also called the “Big Brother”, was always watching the habitants, what's more, they were trying to reduce language into a more synthesized one. So this look from a political point of view is a good thing, but can you look it from a more human or grammatical point of view, it’ll be ridiculous.

Also I found, that love was an important issue for this writers, for them love was the destruction peak, the nemesis of the plot, the exact moment when things start to come down. And as the common saying states “love against all”, in this stories the appearance of love seems to be the beginning of chaos.

In “We” the main character name “D-503” falls passionately in love by the woman “I-330” and he is led to revolt from that exact moment. She led him to break the rules set by the government, best known in this story as the “Table of Hours”. And this induces him into a revolutionary organization, which will start the decadence of the One State (the world’s name).

As well as “We”, Huxley’s book “Brave New World” also handles a love-tragedy story, like a Shakespeare story this one ends with the suicide of his main character, John the savage. He, in his search for love based on Shakespeare books, thinks he’s in love of a woman name Lenina, but because of the inhuman feelings he have raised up, his confusion creates a blank space in his life, that end up with his isolation of the world and his suicide.

As a final point “1984” doesn’t stay out of range; his love plot is similar to “We”. The main character Winston Smith falls in love or enters into a sexual relationship with a woman name Julia. With whom he try to enter into an anti-party underground organization, called the Brotherhood. At the end he is caught and tortured by a man he thought was his guide, name O’Brien.

So now, dystopian novels were the sequels from a tough moment, they were the tree that many tried to climb to forget the horrible past that haunted them. The dedications of the plots to another reality helped many by their time; fly away from its present. For me it’s just as I said before the best resemblance of the 40’s and 50’s. A time, in which many of the population thought that by the year 2000, we were going to be living on Mars. But this doesn’t mean this novels, shouldn’t be treated very seriously and with respect. They are as important as many of others great literature novels. With their amazing plots and similarities between them, they show us how many authors fear in a same way about the future we are now living.