Dystopian media series as a warning to society through exaggerated issues resulting from a multitude of controls regarding the abuse of power of the higher status. All of these dystopian characteristics are recurring themes in all of the societies within them. The movie Minority Report by Steven Spielberg shows a “Pre-Crime” division of the government, while initially helping in the prevention of murders, is manipulated to enable the most powerful person to commit murder. Comparatively in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the animals on a farm, overthrow the tyrannical human, then become just as corrupt as him. These are also similar to the book Fahrenheit 451 also warns people with a story of an emotionally limited society that kills …show more content…
Squealer. sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint brush, and an overturned pot of white paint” (Orwell 108). The pigs lie to the animals by changing their perception of the past through lies, but he was caught. He gets out of the situation through lies and propaganda. These lies and distortions of peoples’ perception are especially heavy in Fahrenheit 451, in which the head of the firefighters, Beatty, goes on a monologue justifying all of their misdoings by saying they act as “... custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors” (Bradbury 56). In this direct address to their propaganda, burning books and shunning the intellectually curious, Beatty claims it's justified because no one feels inferior to anyone else. However, the reader knows this is untrue based on the unfulfilled nature of the society; Beatty knows that literature especially enables complex emotion, perceives it as bad rather than an opportunity for growth, then eliminates that opportunity for everyone within his