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    criticizes trends, norms, and existing systems through an exaggerated worst-case scenario. In both Fahrenheit 451 and Minority Report, the characteristics of the society being an illusion of a perfect utopian world and citizens under constant surveillance are displayed. Fahrenheit 451 and minority report both present characters living under an illusion of a perfect utopian world. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag describes his wife sleeping with her seashells, “Every night the waves came in and bore her off

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    The Social Damage of Censorship in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 It is the year 2053, and you are now 55 years old. Imagine that everything you read, and all of the knowledge you gained, through the English classes you went to as a student were for nothing. By 2053, there is no literature, or even any writing at all, because all books are now banned from society and “firemen” go around destroying any books that remain. The world is now completely dependent on technology. Instead of talking to one

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    horrid society even if it meant burning people, their hopes, their dreams, and their livelihoods into ash. Unlike our own society Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 has many differing aspects than our current reality such as their use of emotions, consequences, and tensions. Paragraph 1- emotions Unlike our own society, in the society of Fahrenheit 451 emotions are suppressed, dulled, or completely gone with only a few awake to see their society for how it truly is. Guy says “Millie? A silence. “What

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    The Theme of Technology in Fahrenheit 451 The future is far away, but what will it be like? In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury depicts this “future world” as being controlled by technology. Technology seems to be incomparable in the future because the citizens like to believe it makes life better. In Fahrenheit 451 technology seems to be replacing family and friends with gadgets and computers. Bradbury uses figurative language to further advance the theme of technology being a negative. The author

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    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is presented in a dystopian future world. Bradbury describes how dangerous the future world is going to be post 1953. Montag is a fireman that starts the fires instead of putting them out. In Montag’s society, people are not allowed to have or read any books.(add quote about books being illegal) There are a lot of similarities between the culture in Fahrenheit 451 and our culture today such as technology. First, one of the new technologies is the parlor which is a lot

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    American author, Ray Bradbury, depicts the dystopian society of his novel, Fahrenheit 451, as being corrupted by the misuse of technology. Throughout the novel, Bradbury uses technology as a prominent force to show the disinterest of the characters in all other aspects of humanity. While the civilization has significant, advanced technology, these advances are not used to benefit others. Instead, they are used to create a numbed society whose satisfaction only comes from instant gratification. The

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    invasive technology, authors were exploring a future when these specific fears came to pass. Related themes involving citizens losing certain freedoms were implemented into these novels which generated connections between these stories. In his novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury describes a distant world in which the idea of censorship was exaggerated to such an extent that it was illegal for any literature to exist, and if found books are burned by the firemen. Similar to Bradbury’s society, 1984 by George

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    Fahrenheit 451: Irony He created a sense of irony making the novel more intriguing. The irony keeps the story interesting. The government does everything in its power to keep the people mindless. Knowledge and freedom cannot exist together. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, The irony of the novel is that “happiness of those who love the book is subjugated to the happiness of the masses’’ (Filler). Since having books are against the law, if you were lucky enough to read a few like the

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    wonderful thing that makes life a lot easier sometimes, but it also has many downsides. Due to technology, many morals have begun to decline and some disappear. It has slowly begun to take over the society that we live in (Zipes). Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 predicts real life in America’s future as opposed to the mid-1950’s society of the novel. It is important to look at this aspect of the text because so much of what has been predicted has become true already, and our country’s weaknesses are clearly

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    The Theme of Love in Fahrenheit 451 A world full a blank expressionless faces connected to even more mindless robotic people. A world where one just breathes and eats, but never truly feels any emotion. Our world is on the way to becoming this, but for Millie and Montag this was a sad, sad, reality in Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451. Everything grows with time as did our main character Montag throughout the book. Montag begins as a mindless follower and evolves into a fearless leader. As he grows

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