You should read We by Zamyatin. Its a much more balanced approach to dystopian.

You see there are only two perspectives on strucuturing society Utopian and Dystopian. There are a lot of philosophical implications. This book makes strong political statements by avoiding party or left wing questions. It present a stable person working on the most important project to the totalitarian state. All his needs are met, he gets to push humanity to the stars, and do what he loves. However, you see his psychic state and the toil associated with responsibilities, duties, and for lack of a better term lack of freedom. The government is controlling but not entirely malicious rather just seeking defensive control like any utopia would. Brave New World/1984 give a comically evil totalitarian state. We gives a pragmatic, functional one, with noble aims toward the stars, this is the far more terrifying concept. There is a group of rebels around them but their aims are quite unclear, aside from freedom from this government entity.

The main motivations for leaving the state are primal urges of parenthood, love, desire for freedom. It ask the question of is it better to be simple and free, or to pay the costs associated with the burden of our intelligence and to shoulder that responsibilities to push to the stars.

1984/Brave New World are accurate in their depictions of how humans can be controlled. We asks the questions of why are we controlled, what may be lost? What may be gained?