One example from page 94 shows how Mildred’s friends don’t care for children at all. “Caesareans or not, children are ruinous.” In contrast, Clarisse actually cares about everything that’s going on around her and reacts when she notices that someone doesn’t acknowledge her, but she is one of a few people who notice what is going on (page 4-7). Similarly, in our society we are a lot more sensitive about emotions. For example, we react when someone is insulted or offended, unlike in Fahrenheit 451’s society. We also care about the nature around us, as we work hard to keep it thriving. However, not all of us are caring and kind-natured, such as the members of Isis who ruthlessly kill. In any case, our society is more expressive with emotions and Fahrenheit 451’s isn’t.
Fahrenheit 451 and our society compares and contrasts because of the availability of knowledge and expression of feelings. We are slowly moving on to more electronics, but are still thoughtful, while the other society is already sucked into the addiction of electronics. Both societies have their own ideas of utopia. At first sight, we would think that Fahrenheit 451’s society is a dystopia, but for them it is utopia, and vice versa. Overall, there is no such thing as a fixed definition of utopia and dystopia because everyone has their different