Examples Of Dystopia In Fahrenheit 451

Anastasia lovlin
Mrs.scaniffe
Humanities P4
EA 2.1 Lauren DeStefano once said, “Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society – a future world that could plausibly happen.” The majority of the time, you would never think to compare our society to any dystopian novel. But, in reality, the dystopian society in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has many similar characteristics to our own society. One similarity between our society and the society in Fahrenheit 451 is that sometime in our near future; with all the technical advancements we have, the majority of our jobs will be run by machines. In the novel, Montag stated, “School is shortened, discipline relaxed,

In the book, Clarisse states, “Sometimes I’m ancient. I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I’m afraid of them and they don’t like me because I am afraid,” (27). In our generation, teens are so focused on technology that they don’t get to interact with other people. They can sit on their phones for hours texting someone, but in person, not a word will come out. In the novel, teenagers also don’t have many interactions with others. In the novel, Clarisse McLellan explains, “...Being with people is nice. But I don’t think it’s social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That’s not social to me at all,” (27). Clarisse is different from her own society. She is the only one who realizes that it is important for real interactions and deep conversations to take place. In our society, older generations know how important it is to not be on your phone all the time. Clarisse is just

In the novel, Faber states, “‘There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Expect that there are. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up with you, it's too late,’” (109). In our society if you make a big enough mistake such as driving under the influence, you can go to jail. Once you are locked up, there is nothing you can really do about it. In the society from the novel, if you make a mistake such as having books, you will go to jail. In both situations, once the consequences are given, you can't do anything about it. Also, in the story Faber states, “‘Montag, can't you get away, run,’” (110). In the society from the novel, many people that have books, try to escape the community because they broke the community’s law. Once they realize what they got themselves into, they are scared of the consequences. In our society, there is many cases of people running from the police in an attempt to get away from their consequences. In both societies, when someone realizes that they messed up and are going to get punished for it, they try to escape the consequence. But the thing about consequences, is that they are very difficult to get out of, once you make a mistake, a punishment is almost surely to follow. In our society and Montag’s society, people don’t always realize that their actions have consequences until it is too