“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way” (Juan Ramon Jimenez). This means that if someone tries to conform you or a society make sure that you stick out and stay different. If they give rules bend them a little. However, this doesn’t mean to become lawless, it simply means to be unique. Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is all about a futuristic society that revolves around technology. The book follows Guy Montag, an average, ordinary person, who gets his world turned upside-down by Clarisse McClellan, a young girl who sees the society in the light instead of the dark like most of the citizens. As the story progresses, we watch Montag finally open his eyes to see what has become of his beloved society. The reader also sees Montag start to ask the big questions, the ones with no definite answer that can get him into trouble in this new society. The people in this fictional society believe that they have found utopia, but when our society views it, we see a dystopia, although when we look closer at our society we not only see the differences but the similarities.
In their utopia books are burned because they always hurt someone’s feelings, “...Don’t step on the toes of the dog-lovers, cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation
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They also watch T.V. constantly to keep themselves happy and amused.Everyone imagines a utopian society from time to time, but can a utopian society really exist? We see the struggle to find utopia everywhere; in this book we see Montag struggle to decide what is right, in real life we experienced World War II (when Hitler tried to force his ideas on the rest of the world), there have also been countless other endeavors that ended up as a dystopia. So no, a utopian society cannot be achieved because it is always a dystopia for