Katie Roark Ms. Medsker English II 1 March 2023 Dystopia There are more than 30,000 laws just in the United States alone. Restrictions, those are the things that keep people from doing what one wants. One could also say that Restrictions help keep people safe. In Fahrenheit 451, restrictions help keep the society dumb and are used as a form of control. In the Lorax, the trees and animals are restricted from thriving. Finally, in “Harrison Bergeron” the people are restricted by handicaps and controlled. In all of these works, restrictions are used to keep people from thinking and thriving; making their societies dystopian. Everywhere the eye can see there are restrictions; some restrictions are a necessity for a civilized society. However, these …show more content…
You want what you cannot have.” -Portia de Rossi. The people of the Lorax and Fahrenheit 451 yearn. The Lorax yearns for the trees to survive and in Fahrenheit 451, Montag and others yearn for books and knowledge. This stops the people in these societies from thriving and enjoying life. The want is aching for these people, and these citizens want nothing more than to enjoy these wonders. However, society tries to distract from these yearnings by using distractions to restrict the citizens from wanting. In Fahrenheit 451, the TV is used as a way to keep people from thinking, it states, “this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said.” (Bradbury 54.) The quote is explaining that the more TV the people have, the less controversy there is. The people started criticizing books, started promoting TV which ended up stopping people from seeing how wrong society was. These people were so distracted by the TV or the latest technology that the knowledge that these people had withered away. What’s more is in the Lorax, at 21:02, …show more content…
In Fahrenheit 451 and “Harrison Bergeron” there is no individuality or thoughts, the government stops people from thinking or gaining knowledge so that people do not start questioning the way the world is. In Fahrenheit 451 and “The Lorax” the citizens and environment is restricted from thriving, all the animals can not thrive because the environment is dying and the citizens can not thrive because the thirst for knowledge is too great, or lack thereof. Throughout the whole history of the world people have always been thirsty for knowledge and curious. When that knowledge is taken away or restricted the world becomes dull, governments take power, and the people are not smart enough to stop it. Then it is peoples rights taken away, the ability to be unique taken away, or the environment is taken away. As a society governments can not have too much power and people must always stay curious and not allow governments to take away thought and free