Examples Of Dystopian Society In Fahrenheit 451

Imagine you are living in a society where every person is the same as another, you can’t think, you can’t have a religion, you don’t have any freedom, and you can’t even read a book. In this society there is depression, suicide, and murder. These elements describe a very unusual society, a dystopian society in the book, Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451 to censor people and show how it works. There’s no growth in this dystopian society because they censor the people and that causes depression, suicide, and murder.

Depression in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is caused by many things and one of those things that lead into it is happiness. In Fahrenheit 451 people are being censored and they can’t do things that they want to do. Everyone is the same so they …show more content…
It results from being censored and not having the freedoms that you could have. Fahrenheit 451 has at least 8-10 suicides per night. Once again, they’re being censored. Every night, people take sleeping pills; even the main character does to help him sleep. For the 8-10 that commit suicide or try to overdose on sleeping pills, most of the time, they don’t even know that it happened. The government complains about how is this happening, but if they wouldn’t censor people, most likely the suicides wouldn’t be happening and neither would everything else. When Montag comes home and sees Mildred and says, “her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow.” Montag ask her why she did it. She denies taking the pills and that it was a hangover. I think the reason was that since they don’t have information, they don’t know how many pills to take. She was thinking that since she can’t sleep, she should take more. The problem of suicide is not the only thing that results, but often another element enters in and that element is