Examples Of Dystopia In Fahrenheit 451

“It was a pleasure to burn.” (Ray Bradbury pg. 1) What does this quote mean you ask? This says that in the utopia/dystopia in Fahrenheit 451 there were no books aloud, people were not allowed to own books or read books, and they were taught to not like them all together. This quote says that it was a good thing to get rid of them and it felt good to do it, and do it with fire. This is a lot different from our modern society, while yes there are people who don’t enjoy books, but we don’t burn every single one. In our society firefighters are meant to put out fires, while in this book they burn houses and start fires. Firemen have dogs to help people in fires, but in the book, they have mechanical hounds that hunt people who are doing things against the law like owning a book. Another difference is that firemen’s hoses in real life have water, and in the book they have kerosene which starts fires. Also, houses in the utopia/dystopia are fireproof, which there are not many in our real world. There are a lot of similarities between the real world and our life, but no burning books in ours.

41) In the book it is expressed that there is a lot of propaganda/misinformation spread to the people in that world. There is this in our world too, just different misinformation. In the book, the home had a room just for TV and there would be a whole entire wall with multiple TVs or one big one. In our society we have living rooms, or family rooms that we watch football or movies in, and there are some houses with big TVs like in the utopia/dystopia. In the book, their government is controlling them to dislike and think all bad about books. In our society, our government is banning some books, and they want us to do and think certain things as