Fahrenheit 451 Dystopian Society Quotes

Dystopian Society has lived in all periods of time throughout history. It is a society that is often isolated from other societies. The author Ray Bradbury has portrayed Dystopian society as a government who often uses propagandas and threatens to make sure people stay loyal to the government. In contrast, a Utopian society is a society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character [Montag] has lived in a Dystopian society where reading books are prohibited. In Montag’s society, not only reading books are prohibited, moreover, the government also burns books to warn people. In the novel, Captain Beatty had spread the idea that reading books is dangerous by saying: “We must be all alike. Not everyone was born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal… A book is a loaded gun in the house next door” (p.58). Beatty’s purpose to say “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door” is to warn and convince people that everyone in the society is equal, nevertheless, whoever tries to destroy the balance will get rigid punishments. The quote by Captain Beatty has shown people were brain-washed and the government makes people afraid to lose their …show more content…
Beatty claimed: “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none” (P.61). The quote demonstrated the existence of books can cause individual thinking. In the main time, reading books also is a threat to totalism, and the government is afraid that once people start to think, they will go turn against the government. The only way to let people not turn against the government is to let its people know nothing; as the results, the government doesn’t let people read hence the people will not protest and