“Although our society is different from the dystopian society in Fahrenheit 451, there are many significant similarities” (Jordan Stephens). In other words, Fahrenheit 451 has many dystopian characteristics that are significantly similar to our modern-day society, but there are still many differences that set them apart. Just because they are not the same does not mean that they will not become more similar in the future. Although Fahrenheit 451 and our modern-day society are different, we still have major similarities that make our societies alike, propaganda, doing what needs to be done, and censorship are all examples of similarities between the two societies. Have you ever wondered how similar and/or how different our modern-day society and dystopian society are? …show more content…
In the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 there is propaganda. This is shown on page 32 when it says” First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin.”(Bradbury 32).In the book everybody is told that firemen have always started fires when in reality, they used to stop them, in the same way how there is propaganda in our society because we cannot know everything that is going on as citizens, we just have to listen to what the government tells us about. One way that they are different is that in Fahrenheit 451 there is no freedom of thought; they are told what to think, who to marry, and what job to work, in contrast we can pick what job we work, who we want to marry, and we can think for ourselves and make our own decisions. In Fahrenheit 451 they use fear to make it so people do not try to have books, similarly we have top secret government bases, and they try to use fear so we avoid them, like Area 51 where people would be shot if they enter it or shot down if they fly over it. “You did what you had to do”. It was coming on for a long time” (Bradbury