There are many similarities and parallels that one can draw between dystopian literature and the modern era we live in today. Similar technology, ways of life, the use of drugs all are connections that can be made. Although our society today is not as dreary or as bleak as it is painted by authors like Orwell or Bradbury in their respective novels, the ideas they tried to heed to us are in some fashion around today. People are weary of each other and spying is quite common. There is an opioid epidemic and crisis affecting much of America, Canada and many other countries. And due to a constant bombardment of entertainment, social media, and a growing dependence on technology people have become subject to mass cultural conditioning, that has in some ways made society dumber
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The governments in those two novels are governments that command complete control and subordination of the people the rule over. What better way to achieve that than to have devices that can look into the lives of the citizens at any time, anywhere. In Fahrenheit 451 it was done by the mechanical hounds as said by Montag on pages 24 And 68, “The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse”, “Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.” Montag paints the picture of machine that strikes fear into the people and gives power and control to the government. By using the mechanical hound it provides a way for the government in Fahrenheit 451 to control using fear. By never knowing when a mechanical hound will be around, people will be on constant alert and eventually will be too afraid to do anything wrong. In 1984, they use more methods than one. They use the telescreens to spy and listen in on Party members whenever they so please. They use
The governments in those two novels are governments that command complete control and subordination of the people the rule over. What better way to achieve that than to have devices that can look into the lives of the citizens at any time, anywhere. In Fahrenheit 451 it was done by the mechanical hounds as said by Montag on pages 24 And 68, “The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse”, “Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.” Montag paints the picture of machine that strikes fear into the people and gives power and control to the government. By using the mechanical hound it provides a way for the government in Fahrenheit 451 to control using fear. By never knowing when a mechanical hound will be around, people will be on constant alert and eventually will be too afraid to do anything wrong. In 1984, they use more methods than one. They use the telescreens to spy and listen in on Party members whenever they so please. They use