Corruption Of The Futuristic Society In Fahrenheit 451

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In Fahrenheit 451 the most important conflict up until this point is how corrupt the futuristic society is within the novel. In this dystopian society there is a parlor, which is similar to a television, the citizens are expected to watch this all day, to be satisfied with it, and it to be their ‘family’. In my opinion, you are gaining nothing from this and watching the parlor regularly is ‘dumbing’ the community. I believe that the government or whoever is behind the parlor idea, created it to make the community lose imagination and creativity. In this society, it isn't rare to attempt suicide and to be revived back into the horrible society, like Mildred did early in this book. This gave me an insight on how bad people wanted to escape

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