Dystopian literature

Our cultural friday morning today will lead Antonella, Davide and Sasha to discuss the questions that Dystopian Literature is still posing after a century. What are the contemporary values of “Brave new world” by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell's “1984” and their ancestor novel “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin? Sex and pleasure, Terror, Brainwashing are used by the manipulative governments of these novels in order to control people. But how easily do human beings give up “Freedom”? Fyodor Dostoyevsky still gives an unsettling insight in this discussion...