Fahrenheit 451: A Dystopian Society

Predict what the world could look like in one hundred years, controlled in a dehumanizing society with no chance of escape or change. The dystopian genre explores an alternate universe, usually this is similar to today’s society, with an exaggerated trend in the worst-case scenario. People are often controlled by corporate, technology, morals, or totalitarianism in the form of a government or higher power. In the dystopian novel, “Fahrenheit 451”, the people are controlled from thoughts and knowledge of the concepts beyond basic conversation. The society put restrictions on books to create peace, yet with this people became attached to technology. Another dystopian society in the film, “The Truman Show”, one man lives in a television show

In “The Truman Show”, as Truman attempts to escape, he feels trapped as explained in the quote, “Blocked at every turn. Beautifully synchronized, don’t you agree?”(The Truman Show). He had lived his life wanting to explore but was shut down at every chance of thought. Truman was ‘the star of the show’, therefore he was confined in a TV set and deprived of experiencing the real world outside with true people and connections, not living in a script. The novel “Fahrenheit 451” had a similar society, where everyone was stuck pretending, as shown in the quote from the novel, “The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highway full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere” (Bradbury 54). In the text it symbolizes how fast and unthoughtful people are living their lives. The dystopian society shows no uniqueness, the people live in an unchanging routine, where happiness is the ambition, yet it is the substantial lie. In both societies, people put on a show, controlled by fear or limitations, and the main characters in both societies appear trapped in a irreparable