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    accurately represents the dystopia in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. In the story the world revolves around technology and how it has gained control over the people by reducing human interaction and replacing people in peoples lives. The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury depicts a dystopian future in which there is a society that is controlled and manipulated by the technology that surrounds them. In the world of Fahrenheit 451 technology envelopes people, serves as a respite from their

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    Throughout the novel Bradbury uses many motifs to further describe the society that takes place in Fahrenheit 451. These motifs are used to show the wrong in the society Bradbury depicts and the paradoxes in this corrupt society. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the motif of snakes and salamanders to show the paradoxes that arise in a conformed society.     Throughout history the folklore around the salamanders. In ancient societies logs would be thrown into fires and salamanders would run out

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    The setting of this novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. This novel took place in a large unknown named U.S city in the year of 2053. This novel has a very gloomy story to it. It’s very scary to think about in the near future because it could happen. The society in 2053 is very relatable in todays society. Guy Montag is the in the protagonist in the novel. Montag is a 30 year old firefighter who starts fires and burns books. “While the books went up in sparkling whirls… wind turned dark

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    Imagine a society completely run by technology—robotic workers, home theatres, supreme medical care. Despite the benefits technology could provide, its flaws are masked away by the glossy image created by the media. Fahrenheit 451 focuses on a dystopian society, taken place in the future, where technology is deeply engraved into the people’s lifestyle. With technology playing a major role in their lives, the people are isolated from their world as they are not exposed to many aspects of being human—knowledge

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    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Equilibrium, directed by Kurt Wimmer are dystopian works of fiction told in futuristic settings that have as much in common as they have in difference. Both main characters rebel against their totalitarian societies that squash forms of emotional expression with brute force. However, the stories show some differences between their protagonists and themes. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Equilibrium, directed by Kurt Wimmer tell the tales of men who defy the

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    the answers. Author Ayn Rand composes main character Equality 7-2521 as strong, but vain. He, like Guy Montag, aims to change society for the better. Both characters plan on changing society by starting a revolution. In the stories Anthem and Fahrenheit 451, the writers Ayn Rand and Ray Bradbury, focus on the controlling of society through the government and propaganda to show that society and its strict rules can lead the public to start a revolt. Imagine not being able to speak or think differently

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    “Fahrenheit 451” and “Matched” How are the dystopian novels “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury and “Matched” by Ally Condie alike and different and how do they compare to our society? In comparison to our society these societies seem to lack individualism and freewill. But the two compared with each other both try to create an ideal society but in the eyes of the main protagonist falls short and differ in how they try to achieve their “utopian society” Both novels, “Fahrenheit 451” and “Matched”

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    Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 involves a government that has persuaded society that books are useless, and that happiness can be found within technology. Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in a society that is exceedingly attached to technology and no longer displays an interest in nor an appreciation for nature. Montag is not your typical fireman; instead of putting out fires, he burns books, because books are prohibited by the government. Throughout the opening of the book, Montag meets his

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    In Fahrenheit 451 a character by the name of Montag has a job to burn books. Later in the story it gets to him, why he's burning books in the first place. This eventually sparks his curiosity for reading books and later his downfall in the end of the novel. Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" the overall plot was to censure every book so that they could never cause anymore commotion and domestic actions ever again. In Bradbury's novel, he uses tone in several ways to illustrate censorship is inappropriate

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    In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, the character Clarisse contributes of the meaning of the book because she is the instigator of Montag’s realization by demonstrating true emotion; Clarisse not only avoid the materialistic world unlike the rest of society, allowing us to understand how overdependence on technology hinders rather than helps society by making us slaves to our devices. To begin, Clarisse is the true epitome of true emotions that later enabled Montag’s revolution. On page 8, it states

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