Fahrenheit 451- a vision of the future

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Fahrenheit 451- a vision of the future

Ray Bradbury's vision of the future is not very optimistic and is not

a world I would like to live in. In Guy Montag's world, compared to

ours, technology has advanced but it hasn't made an improvement

in life. One of the big social changes in Bradbury's vision is the

role of firemen this partly down to the advances in technology

because all houses had been made fire proof. Now there were no
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fires to put out so the firemen had to be given a new role:

"And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all

over the world there was no longer need of firemen for the old

purposes."

Their new job was to, instead of put out fires, start them to burn

books because books were thought to corrupt and distress

people so the government decided they needed destroying, and

reading books was made against the law:

"'Did you ever read any of the books you ...

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