Emily Blackburn 5/14/24 English 10 Korrell Today’s Dystopia. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Truman Show by Peter Weir, and modern society push us to understand ignorance, how important opinions are, and how a lack of privacy can impact society for the worse. showing us how easily a society can fall into a state of passive ignorance, blindly accepting information, and the dangerous implications of following in the footsteps of these works. Dystopian fiction is a type of literature portraying the government having complete control over the people in a society with propaganda, heavy censorship of information, or generally disturbing ideals that the future could be headed towards.The authors that write these stories and create these worlds …show more content…
Ignorance is a powerful thing. In Fahrenheit 451, one of the main characters, Clarisse, states “____________.” Clarisse is hated by her classmates because she liked to learn and chose to break the cycle. An uneducated society is an ignorant one. Furthermore, a lack of opinions in the novel and the civilians having the mindset of sheep causes even more issues. “__________________.” The walls tell them what is true and feed the people lies and opinions to accept as fact, giving them no time to just think. When everything around you is blaring noise, you stop reaching any deeper meanings and forming opinions of your own. A lack of privacy can lead to the loss of life. The idea of breaking into someone's home and searching through it without concrete evidence or even a warning is cruel and dystopian as described in the book, “_______.” A lack of privacy leads the common people to the edge when they decide to acquire books to learn more about the world, they get intruded on and their lives are disregarded. One lady in the book died for her cause, burning in the fires with her novels and knowledge. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a prime example of the themes found in today's society and popular