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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The Novel Fahrenheit 451 , that is written by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian science fiction, and also the frightening prediction of our future world. In the novel, the main character is Guy
Montag who begins as a firefighter, and who starts fires rather than extinguishing them. A corrupt government and society uses its citizens to destroy the past. By burning books and promoting technology and propaganda, citizens become numb to reality around them. Bradbury puts the novel into a frightening, but a very close description setting, in order to show how corrupt our world will be. The dystopian is seen everywhere and in anyone who is “alive”.
Montag is a typical firefighter that loves his job. But only not the firefighter we're used to seeing now, but a dystopian science fictional one. Guy loves to burn things, and loves to see the …show more content…

The evidence of his character is left on page (1) “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed”
The outbreak of technology in 451 hit higher than the standards. While on the other hand the human mind dropped lower and lower, from which the dystopia is seen.The word dystopia means the imagined “happy” world, but really the real corruption in sense. One of the many examples is on page 1, as was said in the earlier quote, in the burning of books. Also there is a big dystopian understanding of family,children and love. On page (9293) it says, “I plunk the serechenko2 children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You heave them into the ‘parlor’ and turn the witch. It's like washing clothes; stuff undry in and slam the lid. They would as soon kick as kiss me. Thank God I can
kick

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