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Even a hint towards non-conventional thoughts will get you arrested and thrown off the face of this world for good. He redefined the word ‘totalitarian’ when he coined the term ‘Thought Police’, who is always watching over you, noting your facial expressions, and guessing your thoughts.

Looking at the atrocities committed by Stalin in Russian and by Hitler before him, Orwell wrote a futuristic character called ‘Big Brother’. How would you feel if you are constantly being followed or being seen? If you have no freedom to do what you want to do? If even thinking of something may become the cause of your death sentence? I don’t need to tell you how, but that is where ‘the normal’ begins in Orwell’s 1984. This is what makes the ‘Brave New World’ a great read. Mindless and irrational pleasures drive the world into a pitfall so dangerous that there is no coming back from it. This is the key point that Huxley wants us to see. As if this isn’t haunting enough, Huxley attributes this condition of society to a totalitarian government that keeps its citizens from thinking rationally. All of this combined would make one feel totally in control of life for there is no sad memory nor there is a possibility of failure, a world that only shows hope, consolation, and reassurance without actually providing it. As Goethe said almost 200 years ago, a false sense of freedom begets the worst enslavement, this world is full of drugs that keep you happy all the time but draw on your capacity to feel emotions full of sex, pornography, and social orgies that make you forget all the troubles you have and the worst of all, and this is followed Ford’s godly lineage, adroit facilities so much that one may take thousands of years to consume it all. Published in 1932 following the year when Henry Ford launched his Model T, Brave New World in a dark dystopian novel that is ironically centred around happiness. “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Such is the case of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, each story talking about a distinctive feature of a world that will leave a mark on history and always steer people away from it becoming a reality. Fiction is often a reflection of what we call reality and the art of a novelist is to comment on that reality which haunts them in their wildest nightmares. 20 th Century may be defined by these three prominent and very much acclaimed novels of ‘Dystopian futuristic novel’ genre with all three of them putting some of the most brilliant speculations about the future if their contemporary state of affairs had remained unchanged.