Fahrenheit 451 Utopian Society Essay

Have you ever wondered how life would be in a utopian society. In case you didn’t know if you look up a utopian society it would say a perfect society in which everything and everybody is the same. Our society today compare and contrast with utopian society such as social interactions and people's view on life. One way a utopian society can compare with societies today is with social interactions. For example, in Fahrenheit 451 friends aren’t a need and if people do have friends they are not truly friends who have each others back but instead don’t care for each other. An example is when Millie “bought a converter attachment for a parlor family” because she wanted the pleasure of of friends (F451 pg.61). Another example would be in the first part of the book Montag and Clarisse used to talk and then when Clarisse died Montag had changed tremendously because he had never spoke with someone that deep. On page 5 when

In the book Fahrenheit 451 the view on life is that people only care for themselves not other people. On page 91 it says, “it's always someone else's husband who dies”, what this quote means is that it will be someone else's husband who dies as long as it is no mine then I don't mind. Another way people in the Fahrenheit 451 society would live is not caring about their life and thinking they are better off dead. An example was Mildred who took sleeping pills on her attempt to commit suicide. She “took two pills then forgot, took two more and then forgot and took two more until you had thirty to forty of them in you”. This situation can relate to today as many teens and even adults would attempt to overdose on whatever that will either kill the or severely injure them. But some people are different and would never do that and would instead want to thrive and live a good life. The view of life can differ in these two societies but in some ways can