In Fahrenheit 451, a firefighter in a dystopian-utopian society has a job to burn books with any sort of useful information in politics, war, etc. He never questions this living until he meets a young girl who tells him about the time where anybody could gain knowledge and didn't have to be suspicious about anything. This book compares and contrasts a Realistic Fiction society from modern day civilization, Where people have the legal right to freedom of speech and knowledge. In the first chapter of the book, its quotes “It was a pleasure to burn.” Guy Montag didn't have any suspicions about his job at first. Then he met Claireese who tells him of the time before. In this society, it's against the law to read, or protest the government, or be …show more content…
The book presents a dystopian utopia where everybody is equal, but the price of its equality is high, destroying any possible source of knowledge, and arresting all people who attempt raise any form of suspicion about the civilization.
Freedom of speech is a classic saying in America, but in the book, the author presents a place where you aren't even allowed to learn about stuff to use freedom of speech. Anything about wars, burned. Anything about politics, burned. Anything providing knowledge, burned.
Equality is unrealistic in modern society, and Fahrenheit 451 shows the reader the potential prices of equality through a Realistic Fiction. The O'Reilly Factor is a popular show today, it would be illegal in the books society. The government's idea of equality in the book is there would be nothing to fight about, no reason for hatred. That's the general idea of the perfect
“Utopian Society.” But the society still has some flaws in this utopia. A hidden dystopia, where all information is hidden.
“Peace wasn't an accomplishment, it's a responsibility.” That's a quote from a near Nobel prize winner. This man didn't receive it because he declined the prize stating the quote at