Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Each individual has a different perspective of what a perfect society is. Throughout the course of history there have been instances where an individual takes on the task of creating a perfect society to suite their opinions and perspectives. The attempt to create perfect societies are known as utopian experiments. The goal of a utopia is to employ peace and perfection through dominance, restriction, and loss of freedoms of a community. A strong disciplined leader is needed to maintain their ideas of a perfect society, to instill a sense of fear, restrict information, and violate freedoms which forms a controlling authority over the community. In creating a utopia, leaders had to first come up with a way to ensure the trust and full cooperation …show more content…

Due to the power of restriction or abridgment of information to people, maintaining a perfect society becomes easier because the person in charge can choose what the people should to know, either by giving an inadequate version or none at all. This can be accurately represented in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which depicts a futuristic society in which books are burned due to the information they contain. In this utopian vision the loss of books creates a lack of knowledge, ignorance, and questions or controversy with certain morality issues. The people in charge burned books to create their society pure and start new with their ideas. This privation of information by the people in authority led the people to be brainwashed, proving the concept of how the privation of information helps maintain a "perfect society" through the ignorance and/or lack of …show more content…

Because freedoms such as speech, religion, and/or press are taken away from the community, the leader or authority is therefore violating the civil liberties that are given to man or woman in the Constitution. An example of a series of violation of rights is the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in which Anne Hutchinson was put on trial and kicked out of the colony. Anne Hutchinson challenged the religious beliefs of Puritans by setting up secret meetings and teaching her own beliefs to the people. John Winthrop, a political figure in the colony, charged her therefore violating her rights to religion and assembly. John Winthrop wanted to keep the ideas of Puritanism in the colony, creating his own utopia where everyone was pure and peaceful. Due to this John Winthrop used his power to violate Anne's liberties and kicked her out, proving that laws created by an authoritative figure can violate civil liberties of those involved in the

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