Examples Of Utopian Society In Fahrenheit 451

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Have you ever heard of a Utopian society? Believe in it? Dont? Don't know what it is? well a Utopian society is a “perfect” place or world, where everything is ideally perfect. One perspective on it is that, people aren't perfect so how can a world filled with imperfect people be perfect? In the book Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury made the world in the book a Utopian society. The “in charge” people in the book tried to get rid of all sad things so everyone would be “happy”.They also burned books so some people could be happy and to not let anyone become smarter than the other. Also they had tv addictions...they thought that the shows on tv were their families. Unfortunately there was one problem to this utopian society, people start to wonder…. and where does that wondering take them? Is the author trying to say that we are headed in the direction a utopian society, or something similar? Is our society and their society really any different? In the book Fahrenheit 451 society tries to get rid of emotions and individual desires to help people become more loyal to society and our society is on its way towards this. …show more content…
They stopped building front porches and destroyed the other porches already built, so the people wouldn't take time to sit and chat...about the world. Also the people believed that the shows on tv were their, near and dear, family. In this quote Montag asks Millie, “Does white clown love you...does your ‘family’ love you…” Montag changed the name of the show to family, which means Millie thinks of them as family. This can relate to our society with all the social media online…. who needs a real friend anymore. We have so many ways to make fake friends virtually that our real social interaction levels have gone down. To add technology is going to get more and more advanced, with more ways to not be face to face

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