Utopian Society In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

A utopia is a place of ideal perfection. However, according to the Merriam-Webster, it is also an impractical scheme for social improvement. Though dating back to the earliest days of U.S. history, utopian communities became a part of American thought by the 1840s. Various groups that were struggling because of urbanization and industrialization, challenged the traditional norms of American society with a desire to create a world without capitalism, immigration, and the tension between communities. However, these attempts failed due to individualism, materialism, the lack of growth, and little balance.

Utopia would be a place where everyone cared and loved for each other. For example, no one would judge nor criticize another person. No one would fight over different things, thus the prevention of war. One would never feel threatened in their acts if nobody hated them for it.

Every person has their own personal vision of utopia. My utopia may be filled with libraries and cats, while yours would probably look very different. In Frankenstein, Shelley gives us Victor Frankenstein, a man who envisions a world where he will never feel the pain of losing someone he loves again. He devises a way to cheat

Society has changed dramatically. In the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, not everyone is normal like they should be. People are numb to the world and to the things around them.

This reflect remembers Montag’s description of Clarisse as a mirror in The Hearth and the Salamander. Granger clearly sees that they need to evaluate who they really are before they start doing new things. Mirrors in the book Fahrenheit 451 are symbols or self-understanding of seeing oneself clearly. Mirrors can also be symbols of seeing who you really are from the outside to the inside. “Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them” (Bradbury

Our society is all about entertainment and government control. Everyday hours are wasted watching a screen. Every day the government makes more and more request to censor items on Google. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury warns future generations not to be trapped by entertainment and the government censorship. Look around; we are no different. This essay will state the similarities and differences between our societies. I believe that if we keep heading in this direction we will turn out to be like the Fahrenheit 451 society.

Imagine a society that arrests innocent people for owning a book. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury builds a world that firefighter’s burn down houses that have books instead of preventing fires from happening. In Montag’s society, burning book is a way to get rid of all the past knowledge because they don’t want their citizens to go against the society. In this utopia society, everyone looks exactly that same and they lack communication. Bradbury creates a futuristic community that doesn’t allow citizens to read books because they want all of their people to be content.

No two utopias societies are the same, although, they can have similarities. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a passionate attempt to get people to start caring about their thinking again. This utopian society is comprised of individuals that don’t think. In Bradbury’s iconic novel, set sometime in the near future, a protagonist by the name Guy Montag finds himself unhappy in a society that has banned books and that doesn’t care about anything or anyone. One day, a young girl, Clarisse, stumbles upon Mr. Montag and opens him up to this world of really noticing things. Before Clarisse, he only ever thought of nothing like most everyone else. He went through life without ever having questions or any important thoughts. After the death of Montag’s new friend, he becomes even more deranged by the idea that he has never been happy and the fact that he doesn’t know for sure what that word means. He sees that people are willing to die for their precious books. The most significant scene that really shows that he is changing is when Montag is telling his wife Millie about his self conflict. He tells her that he wants to read books because of a woman that stayed and burned in her house filled with books. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing”, (Bradbury 48). At this point he is really just clinging to his sanity, he wants to know what is so great

“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”- Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury created this novel; not just to make an entertaining story, but to explain the problems of the future. Though this book is fiction, it informs the public on similar problems in the 21st century. Fahrenheit 451 illustrated problems such as technology, the brainlessness of society, and lack of communication. Those problems relate to the main themes of the book: totalitarianism, loss of faith, and the importance of relationships. The downfall of humanity can not be blamed for the lack of structure, but by the attitudes of the people. The actions of humans influences the destruction of mankind

In 1953, American author and screenwriter, Ray Bradbury, in his novel, Fahrenheit 451, utilizes a dramatic and depressing tone alerting the effects of social issues in a dystopian society, such as order and identity in the world. During the 1950's new technological advances were being created that helped alter the world such as the first ever commercial computer or television. Bradbury's purpose in this novel was to prevent what was to come in the future with the minds of human minds be consumed by new toys and gadgets. With this book Bradbury wanted to change his audience's perspective on the way they perceive books and the social outcome it can have. He implements many Biblical allusions, paradoxes, and imagery to help develop his major themes that factor what is happening in society.

Ray Bradbury´s wrote a book about this dystopian society where everything in our world is backwards in their world, they can speed, they burn books, and everybody is always gloomy and sad. Montag changed his mindset throughout the book, he went from burning books to saving them from getting burnt. Mildred on the other hand, continuously stayed the same throughout the book. She beginned the book showing she did not care, and carried that same mentality through the rest of the book. Ray Bradbury´s uses contrasting characters in Fahrenheit 451 to illustrate the differences within views of a dystopian society with his development of Montag and Mildred.

Several conflicting frames of mind have played defining roles in shaping humanity throughout the twentieth century. Philosophical optimism of a bright future held by humanity in general was taken advantage of by the promise of a better life through sacrifice of individuality to the state. In the books Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 clear opposition to these subtle entrapments was voiced in similarly convincing ways. They first all established, to varying degrees of balance, the atmosphere and seductiveness of the “utopia” and the fear of the consequences of acting in the non-prescribed way through character development. A single character is alienated because of their inability to conform – often in protest to the forced

society by reading only the first few pages. Fahrenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury in

Today technology controls almost everything we do, from the way we go places to what we eat. With this power of technology comes good and evil, medicines and poisons. Through technology we have accesses way more information than before. For example every day you can absorb as much knowledge as King Henry the eighth did in his entire life. This is all due to the improvement of technology. Sadly technology also has a bad side, with faster communication, rumors can be spread faster and kids can be bullied easier. The internet can easily become a second world for many people, especially young adults. Technology is the basis for many relationships, especially long distances. Match.com and other dating sites take advantage of the fact so many people use technology as a way to make or maintain relationships. With technology comes a large amount of knowledge that is easily accessible. Some of the knowledge offends or scares many people but our government hasn’t gotten the point of completely censoring everything. In Fahrenheit 451, a novel about a dystopian society, Ray Bradbury illustrates what he believes our world should be like right now. This scarily accurate novel demonstrates the way technology has affected knowledge and relationships in both our world and the world of Fahrenheit 451 in the same way.

An utopian society can be defined as a most ideal place where everyone desire. Utopia is an imaginary place for some characteristics that actually cannot be achieved for. But still many people had tried to create a utopia for their earnest will to live in a best society. Now day people’s situation, which can be said as abject and hopeless, had made them to dream of a wonderland that cannot exist. Brook Farm, Kibbutz, and Walden Two are some examples for the created utopian society. They all have some incompleteness, because there would be many irony factors to create a real utopia, but they can be said as some relatively complete utopian societies. The best over these three examples will probably be the Walden Two society, because it has the