Looking Backward By Edward Bellamy, And Fahrenheit 451

Mr. West is surprised by how the society has turned out and the kindness he received from a complete stranger. This stranger and doctor is the other main character Dr. Leete. Julian begins to discuss the vast improvements among the half a century he has been asleep. Here Bellamy begins to describe the utopia world that he has created. Julian is amazed to hear how the society is equally prosperous and is worried and the society values common good among the society than who has the most power.

Having a family bond is important to the structure of society because people crave attention and the feeling of being cared for. In the novels Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Oryx and Crake by Margot Atwood, the importance of strong family ties is massively irrelevant due to the fact that the characters in each novel are given the illusion of actual feelings and relationships. Both stories show that family is not important to have a happy life. In Fahrenheit 451, the story takes place in a dystopian society where firemen instead of putting out fire, makes fire by burning books. The main character Montag is a fireman and meets a girl named Clarisse and made him start to question his life. In Oryx and Crake, the story takes place in a society where technology runs society. The main character Jimmy learns to live life the hard way and met a person named Crake who becomes the smarts of society. Jimmy and Crake met a girl named Oryx through technology and their life becomes unraveled when they graduate from college. Technology affects family ties by promoting ways to separate people away from their family.

Julian West is educated and the third generation of his family to have great fortune. West’s life of luxury succeed through “support from the labor of others, rendering no sort of service in return (Bellamy).” When West enters hypnotic sleep and awakes in 2000 he realizes the 20th century is very different from the 19th. Bellamy’s Looking Backward was vastly popular particular among the middle class. His vision is desired by the middle class because it’s better than today’s world. Bellamy’s vision

A dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or dreadful. It is typically a society that is limited to certain resources. In a dystopia, a society is usually controlled by the government and leaves no power to the people. Two examples of dystopias would be take place in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and in Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. They have an abundance of components in common, while there are also a few notable differences, each society has its own advantage, and the reactions would be different depending on what dystopia and the surroundings you are placed in.

Edward Bellamy shows how he wants to create changes for society at the time to ensure a better future. He wrote in the nineteenth century about a boy named Julian who comes from a very well off and wealthy family. During this time period there was a huge distinction between the wealthy and the poor and many believed that there was no way that society could bridge that gap. Wealthy people thought that they were superior. After Julian is put to sleep for over one hundred years, he wakes up in Bellamy’s Utopian modern age. During Julian’s stay in the new country, he experienced the differences that Bellamy believes could change the country making it a better place for everyone both rich and poor. Bellamy is stressing the need for equality.

Author of dark and imaginative science fiction novels, such Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, has passed away, in Los Angeles, at 91. Bradbury was arguably one of the main authors to introduce modern science fiction to today’s literature. A lot of his novels (like Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451) are still being read by students everywhere, along with his short story collection (including The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and The Golden Apples of the Sun) even over 50 years after being released. Bradbury’s writing career spanned for 70 years, even leading up the the last weeks of his life. He published his first story to a magazine called Super Science Stories at around 20, and had his short story The Martian Chronicles

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury it focuses on the downfall of a society due to the uprising of technology. Guy Montag, the protagonist of the story, is a firemen in this dystopian society where books are forbidden. When we think of firemen nowadays we picture someone who protects people from the dangers of fire, but in the book firemen are the ones who create fires to intentionally burn books that they 've hunted down in peoples houses. Books are looked at as something that promotes people to be unique and independent and create this free thinking. The society does not want their people to think that this a normal and “good” thing. The government wants to control everyone in order to maintain peace in the community. The

Aldous Huxley’s utopia in Brave New World foreshadowed and illuminated the complications within modern day society. Upon its release, the narrative became widely banned all over the United States due to the unorthodox thoughts and actions of multiple characters in it. Early readers, as well as modern day audiences, feared and rejected the ideals that Huxley incorporated into his perfect society; however, our society today is heading towards the dark paths the older generations desired to avoid.

Social class as a result of differences in wealth or individuality are something that is a fundamental part in civilization. The book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley focuses on a futuristic dystopian society in which these things are magnified in order to create a rift in society. Each person is crafted specifically in order to perform their job well, and from birth they are divided into castes that dictate their way of living. By establishing a strict regime in Brave New World where the social classes are so well-defined that they are biological, Huxley makes a point about the world we live in by exploring the thought that our widely divided society will be one of our civilization’s greatest weaknesses and potentially downfalls due to

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes about a dystopian society consisting of consumerism and happiness. This society strictly relies on its rules and provides a narrow way of thinking in life. When John is introduced in the book, he possesses knowledge of a Indian civilization unlike Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson. In this strange civilization, John learned old English from Shakespeare and Christianity, which are ousted in the World States. Because of his knowledge of this information, he is shunned from the new society he is not used to. This alienation pushes him out separating his views of life and the government’s views. In Brave New World, Huxley alienates John and his forbidden knowledge, preventing to upset the World

These are the ten quotes I have chosen for my report: the first is: “It was a pleasure to burn” this quote starts the novel it shows how much Guy Montag loves his job and he was just another person living in the false reality of this dystopia. It also starts his character arc as man who burns books into a man that reads them. The second is: “How inconvenient! Always before it had been like stuff in the candle. The police went first and adhesive taped the victim’s mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering pedal cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house. You weren 't hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things really couldn 't be hurt, since things felt nothing, and things don 't scream or

seven. They could have had twice as much blood from me…” (117). That is a line from John that emphasizes the desire that John has to prove his worth to his fellow companions who ostracize him because of his appearance.

intellectuals. By being transported to the "modern day," Julian West, the protagonist, is able to contrast the two societies he has lived in: the capitalistic 19th century and the utopian, socialist 20th century.

Looking Backward magnifies the need for balance among the economic and social issues of human society. In the new and improved society, the process of humans acting rational under specific conditions gives a more logical outlook for existence. Being reasonable amongst each other can create a society in which reflects the goodness and liberality, much like the vision of society Bellamy has. Another major theme of Looking Backward is the idea of solidarity: people acting with the concern for their mutual benefit, versus challenging each other, is what Bellamy assumes to build his utopia. His beliefs for a successful world were to ensure the society’s main purpose revolved around the idea of being organized and always aware of people’s needs

Bellamy, a writer from Massachusetts, is set in his deep resentment for the disorderly and chaotic social, political, and economic system of the late 19th century. As he quite accurately portrays, America was epitomized by the working classes becoming “infected with a profound discontent with their condition, and an idea that it could be greatly bettered if they only knew how to go about it.” In Looking Backward, Julian notes that there were two mindsets that