Fear Of Oppression In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

Lauren Oliver shares, “Dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears” (Oliver). Fahrenheit 451, Minority Report, and Animal Farm are all types of dystopian media and literature, which reveal the fear of individual thought, someone determining one’s future, and oppression, which are all current fears. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he portrays the banishment of individuality and thought by burning and eliminating all books. In the film Minority Report, Steven Spielberg directs the fear of control cinematically with John Anderton and three pre-cogs determining foreshadowed crimes and preventing them. However, they do not acknowledge the chance of free will and continue eliminating violations. In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell depicts the fear of oppression with animals

All three dystopian pieces of literature include the usage of propaganda to control citizens, how society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world, and the control of people through fear and intimidation. To begin, a characteristic of dystopian literature is using propaganda to control citizens of society. For example, in Minority Report, Spielberg portrays multiple billboards showing precrime, how it reduces the number of crimes by 90%, and how it has been six years since the enactment of the system. This type of propaganda controls citizens by brainwashing them to believe in precrime by its success rates and the number of times people see it around. Using these advertisements increases the population’s acceptance of precrime because of their regular observation of those commercials. In addition, in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury mentions the use of propaganda with “the people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham’s Dentrifice,