Burning. The people of Fahrenheit 451 watched as their freedom was burned from them, and they did nothing. They had been pounded into submission, making the world an unforgiving place. This dystopian seems like a fantasy, something that is pulled out of the deepest depths of the imagination that could never come true. However, the dystopian world of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 may seem like a distant possibility, but in reality, it may be closer than we think as a result of technology.
A dystopian society has already been seen in the past century. This is Communist Russia, also known as the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a country, now known as Russia, that was ruled by a corrupt government that limited access to the outside world and controlled the population in many ways. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922 and was only dissolved in 1991. This is similar to the society of Fahrenheit 451 as the government controls what the citizens believe by controlling what information they are allowed to receive, and by spoon-feeding the public what the government wants them to believe.
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North Korea is a dictatorship ruled by Kim Jong-un where everything is controlled by the government. On page 56 when Beatty says, "Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.” This is a lot like the country of North Korea because if it isn’t liked by their ruler it's banned, and if continued it is punishable by being sent to mining facilities or even death. This relates to Fahrenheit 452 because if society doesn’t like it, it gets burned. As far as a dystopian world may seem, there is still one that can be found on map