Looking Backward By Edward Bellamy, And Fahrenheit 451

Author of dark and imaginative science fiction novels, such Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, has passed away, in Los Angeles, at 91. Bradbury was arguably one of the main authors to introduce modern science fiction to today’s literature. A lot of his novels (like Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451) are still being read by students everywhere, along with his short story collection (including The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and The Golden Apples of the Sun) even over 50 years after being released. Bradbury’s writing career spanned for 70 years, even leading up the the last weeks of his life. He published his first story to a magazine called Super Science Stories at around 20, and had his short story The Martian Chronicles

Having a family bond is important to the structure of society because people crave attention and the feeling of being cared for. In the novels Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Oryx and Crake by Margot Atwood, the importance of strong family ties is massively irrelevant due to the fact that the characters in each novel are given the illusion of actual feelings and relationships. Both stories show that family is not important to have a happy life. In Fahrenheit 451, the story takes place in a dystopian society where firemen instead of putting out fire, makes fire by burning books. The main character Montag is a fireman and meets a girl named Clarisse and made him start to question his life. In Oryx and Crake, the story takes place in a society where technology runs society. The main character Jimmy learns to live life the hard way and met a person named Crake who becomes the smarts of society. Jimmy and Crake met a girl named Oryx through technology and their life becomes unraveled when they graduate from college. Technology affects family ties by promoting ways to separate people away from their family.

Edward Bellamy and Ray Bradbury both expressed their concerns that they had during their two different time periods. Their pieces of literature both reflected on a what-if society based on the current living conditions. Each of the main characters were both guided by people and amazed at what they could find if they broke their norm and put their heads in the mindset of creating or living in a better society. In each of the novels Looking Backwards and Fahrenheit 451, the authors clearly oppose what is happening or what they think is going to happen in the future.

The book Looking Backward was written by Edward Bellamy and published in the year 1888. Bellamy started off his career as a journalist but then married and decided to devote his efforts to writing fiction novels. Looking Backward was published and Bellamy was famous. The book stirred around the country and had people imagining a world like the one Bellamy created in his book. The idea of a utopia as the one he describes is unbelievable. His book is what people, of even now in the twenty first century, wish the world could possible be like. However, Bellamy's world of reasoning and judging of people based on the inner beliefs was not what people of then or now do. Bellamy's book showed a world of rationality being

The typical utopian world that people dream of consists of freedom, equality and political order. Dystopian fiction, however, is only the illusion of a perfect world. In reality, a dystopia is the complete opposite of a utopian society. It is commonly written to warn the reader of what might come if a certain way of life continues. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury predicted many issues that plague society today. The larger societal and individual issues Bradbury warns against are the consequences from the lack of social interactions, the spread and focus on technology, and the rise in violence.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury it focuses on the downfall of a society due to the uprising of technology. Guy Montag, the protagonist of the story, is a firemen in this dystopian society where books are forbidden. When we think of firemen nowadays we picture someone who protects people from the dangers of fire, but in the book firemen are the ones who create fires to intentionally burn books that they 've hunted down in peoples houses. Books are looked at as something that promotes people to be unique and independent and create this free thinking. The society does not want their people to think that this a normal and “good” thing. The government wants to control everyone in order to maintain peace in the community. The

Several conflicting frames of mind have played defining roles in shaping humanity throughout the twentieth century. Philosophical optimism of a bright future held by humanity in general was taken advantage of by the promise of a better life through sacrifice of individuality to the state. In the books Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 clear opposition to these subtle entrapments was voiced in similarly convincing ways. They first all established, to varying degrees of balance, the atmosphere and seductiveness of the “utopia” and the fear of the consequences of acting in the non-prescribed way through character development. A single character is alienated because of their inability to conform – often in protest to the forced

These are the ten quotes I have chosen for my report: the first is: “It was a pleasure to burn” this quote starts the novel it shows how much Guy Montag loves his job and he was just another person living in the false reality of this dystopia. It also starts his character arc as man who burns books into a man that reads them. The second is: “How inconvenient! Always before it had been like stuff in the candle. The police went first and adhesive taped the victim’s mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering pedal cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house. You weren 't hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things really couldn 't be hurt, since things felt nothing, and things don 't scream or

Julian West is educated and the third generation of his family to have great fortune. West’s life of luxury succeed through “support from the labor of others, rendering no sort of service in return (Bellamy).” When West enters hypnotic sleep and awakes in 2000 he realizes the 20th century is very different from the 19th. Bellamy’s Looking Backward was vastly popular particular among the middle class. His vision is desired by the middle class because it’s better than today’s world. Bellamy’s vision

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes about a dystopian society consisting of consumerism and happiness. This society strictly relies on its rules and provides a narrow way of thinking in life. When John is introduced in the book, he possesses knowledge of a Indian civilization unlike Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson. In this strange civilization, John learned old English from Shakespeare and Christianity, which are ousted in the World States. Because of his knowledge of this information, he is shunned from the new society he is not used to. This alienation pushes him out separating his views of life and the government’s views. In Brave New World, Huxley alienates John and his forbidden knowledge, preventing to upset the World

Since the 19th century, profound change has marked the United States and the world. This is brought to full light in Edward Bellamy’s 19th century book, Looking Backward. As Bellamy follows the experiences of a young 19th century American man named Julian West, who awakes to find himself in the year 2000, he explores the possibility of a utopian society in which people could find freedom from the oppressive and harsh circumstances prominent in his time. Although the government is now in control of much of every day life, it has saved the people from corrupt business practices, greedy business executives, crime, and war. As Bellamy looks around at his own society and sees continuous chaos and disarray, Looking Backward is a call to action and a forecast of a peaceful, utopian world in which man has little to fear. Bellamy’s strong conviction that to be human means to be loyal, harmonious, altruistic, and honest, led him to believe that this and more was possible, as humans unite to bring about change in the world.

seven. They could have had twice as much blood from me…” (117). That is a line from John that emphasizes the desire that John has to prove his worth to his fellow companions who ostracize him because of his appearance.

Looking Backward magnifies the need for balance among the economic and social issues of human society. In the new and improved society, the process of humans acting rational under specific conditions gives a more logical outlook for existence. Being reasonable amongst each other can create a society in which reflects the goodness and liberality, much like the vision of society Bellamy has. Another major theme of Looking Backward is the idea of solidarity: people acting with the concern for their mutual benefit, versus challenging each other, is what Bellamy assumes to build his utopia. His beliefs for a successful world were to ensure the society’s main purpose revolved around the idea of being organized and always aware of people’s needs

Set in the late 19th and early 21th century, Looking Backwards is a utopian novel discussing the advantages of socialism, a political philosophy that many disenchanted intellectuals of the 19th century believed in. Edward Bellamy, the author, is included in that class of

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and the film V for Vendetta by James McTeigue, there are a different range of features of their text type which explore the common theme of individuality against oppression. A fascist government occupies London after a world war in V for Vendetta. Where V uses terrorist tactics to fight the dictators, after saving Evey from the secret police, he now discovers an ally in the battle against England’s corrupt government. Fahrenheit 451, set in the futuristic 24th century, tells the story of Guy Montag and his struggle with the censored society. Burning books as a living, he begins to question his occupation and joins an underground network of intellectuals to rebuild a literate and cultural