Examples Of Dystopian Society In Fahrenheit 451

Do we live in a dystopian society? Fahrenheit 451 deals with many issues throughout the story but the things that stood out to me were how common suicide was, how war is constantly happening, and how the government controls people through the media. Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction book about a dystopian society where books are illegal. But are we similar to their society? In my opinion, Fahrenheit 451 is similar to contemporary America because of constant war, suicide, and fake news. The first topic that interested me was suicide and how common it was. It was brought up multiple times throughout the book but there wasn’t any reaction, and they never brought up anyway to get help. On page 36 Montag says “We're due back at the house. Besides,

In Montag's life, he constantly hears planes and jets overhead and hears of threats on the news. Women have to deal with their husbands being sent off constantly and never knowing if they’ll come back. An example of this is page 27 where Clarisse and Montag discuss and she says “Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?” (Bradbury) 27 And as well on page 158 it says “And the war began and ended in that instant” (Bradbury 158). There may be correlations to how the wars are brought about but in our lives, an article states “The problems that we have been encountering over the period since then are essentially all political problems and political problems can only ever be solved by people talking to each other.”(Sterman) 103 and from the same article "In addition, there is a long tradition in American foreign policy circles of using terms that suggest similar concepts such as quagmire, again dating largely to the Vietnam War, and recent scholarly work in the field of civil war research by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, assistant professor of political science at Leiden University, has given the term definition that allows comparison across multiple cases of civil war." (Streman