Fahrenheit 451 Book Analysis

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Books aren’t as Dangerous as They Seem Everyone has the ability to look at where the world is today and picture what the future might hold. That’s exactly what Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury did in their futuristic novels, though exaggerating quite a bit. In Huxley’s novel Brave New World, he depicts a society where people are decanted from bottles instead of being born from mothers. George Orwell gives us a glimpse at a world where everything is regulated, even sex, in his novel 1984. Bradbury foresaw the future in the most accurate way in his novel Fahrenheit 451; writing about a future without literature to guard the people from negative feelings, just as our college campuses in America are doing by adding trigger warnings to books with possible offensive content. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, all books are outlawed, in order to keep people from …show more content…

All of the women are to take contraceptives in order to prevent pregnancy (Huxley 38). Babies are now decanted from bottles in factories, and strictly monitored and conditioned throughout development. To have a child naturally is deemed uncivilized, and would be a massive embarrassment to a woman, so all the girls are extremely careful about taking their birth control regularly. Unlike America, where hundreds of children are born each day to mothers without shame. According to the Curriculum Review, in the year 2009, over four-hundred thousand babies were born to mothers here in America, between the ages of 15 and 19 (Responding To Teen Pregnancy, 10). Woman here in America take pride in their pregnancies, even taking pregnancy photographs for memorabilia, and using their nine months of expecting to happily prepare for the coming of their child developing in their womb. The majority of mothers here in America would say pregnancy is difficult, but a life changing experience that leaves their heart filled with more love than they ever thought

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