V-E Day had come and gone. Two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan. The Cold War had sprung up out of the Soviet Union’s paranoia of the spread of capitalism. Spain had just barely escaped developing into an autocracy. Needless to say, the world was changing in 1949, and, in some eyes, it was taking a turn for the worse. Many nations either chose to turn a blind eye to the resurgence of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and Asia or merely succumbed to its wrath, becoming just an additional province to an empire. There did, however, remain multiple individuals who perceived this uprising as a chance to tap into the apprehension taking over the Western Hemisphere and warn those practicing laissez-faire policy about what the future had in store for mankind if it continued along this trend.
One of these men, a well-educated Briton under the name of Eric Blair, developed a strong apathy towards totalitarianism following his serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, modern-day Myanmar. Beneath the guise of the pseudonym “George Orwell”, Blair revolutionized the …show more content…
Just as Orwell had done two years prior, Bradbury, on a library typewriter that cost twenty cents per hour on which to write, drafted his long-famed dystopian masterpiece Fahrenheit 451 (1951). His futuristic novel centers around a thirty-year-old “fireman” under the name of Guy Montag, whose job entails the burning of books, which are banned altogether due to their reputation for pointing out the flaws in society, along with the houses that contain them. Upon carefully analyzing the works of both Bradbury and Orwell, one finds several common elements, including but not limited to surveillance, propaganda, and alteration of the truth; these elements have indisputably provided the standard to which modern dystopian authors have consistently
One of these men, a well-educated Briton under the name of Eric Blair, developed a strong apathy towards totalitarianism following his serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, modern-day Myanmar. Beneath the guise of the pseudonym “George Orwell”, Blair revolutionized the …show more content…
Just as Orwell had done two years prior, Bradbury, on a library typewriter that cost twenty cents per hour on which to write, drafted his long-famed dystopian masterpiece Fahrenheit 451 (1951). His futuristic novel centers around a thirty-year-old “fireman” under the name of Guy Montag, whose job entails the burning of books, which are banned altogether due to their reputation for pointing out the flaws in society, along with the houses that contain them. Upon carefully analyzing the works of both Bradbury and Orwell, one finds several common elements, including but not limited to surveillance, propaganda, and alteration of the truth; these elements have indisputably provided the standard to which modern dystopian authors have consistently