Fahrenheit 451 Rhetorical Analysis

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In the novel Fahrenheit 451, people are encouraged to be “whistleblowers” and to tattle on those who do not conform to society and ideals. I believe that this is an accurate description of the society in which we live today and whole-heartedly agree with Bradbury’s views of what society will become if we continue on this path. I think that Bradbury included the aspect of society in which people are encouraged to be mindlessly happy because that is the direction in which he saw society turning, and he wished to express his opinions on what our society would become if we continued on this path to what we thought would be a perfect utopia, but in all reality it is simply a well-disguised form of dystopia and misery, in which no one could ever

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