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Role Of Dystopia In Fahrenheit 451

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In literature, the multiple demonstrations of how futures might play out or how it might have been. Dystopian novel are books where character live society in fear mainly because of an opposing force which may be wielding power. In the book Fahrenheit 451, you can clearly see that what is happening is of a dystopian future fully controlled in how it functions. The book is dystopian in the way it shows how society is run, how censorship is enforced, and how the character discovers that their something is wrong. Societies are run in different way by people that choose who they believe would lead their society to triumph. In Fahrenheit 451 the Presidential Election in demonstrates that they solely choose their President on how he looked and not by what he could do, Mrs. Bowles states about the Presidential election, “Fat, too, and didn’t dress No wonder the landslide was for Winston Noble. Even their names helped. Compare Winston Noble to Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost figure the results."(Bradbury 93) This show how they elected based on intellectual manipulation; the looks of the candidate and name were used to make people see who they liked more as their …show more content…

In the case of Montag it came to that point after realizing that the life he has been living isn’t much fulfilling. The connection he has with his wife isn’t there and can’t remember where the connection even started, also the suicide of the old woman made him wonder what has so valuable about the books that death is preferable than to give them up. Bradbury states “...and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman…”(Bradbury 41) This shows Montag’s disconnect to life where he feels that even death isn’t anything anymore, he doesn’t care

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