Examples Of Utopia In Fahrenheit 451

Utopia, a word that has been known to mean a perfect world filled with everything you want it to be. This is not entirely the definition of Fahrenheit 451, for instance, a ‘perfect’ world doesn’t cause people sadness, doesn’t cause people to hide, which are some of the things that are happening in Fahrenheit 451 just so they can keep their books. Citizens must hide their books because if they were found, their books would be burned, and they would be forced to burn along with them. Therefor this is not a utopia because knowledge is what everyone wants and what would make people happy, Montag is an example because he states that nobody was happy because their happiness was trapped inside the books, that happiness being the knowledge written on the pages.

Her house was being lit up, her books being burned, and yet she wanted to stay with them because she loved her books too much to watch them burn without her. Her love for these books, the undying love she has that causes her to burn with them shows that her books are very important to her, so important that she would die for them. The fact that she had to burn with them instead of being alive shows how unperfect the world is, shows how people devote their life to keeping their books and to keeping them hidden from the state so that they can continue to read them in private. Therefore, books are wanted because of the knowledge inside, that knowledge being what people desire. An example would be Madoc because he stated that their real happiness was inside the books, proving that their happiness is the knowledge, which is being burnt away, showing how this story is not a