The Symbolic Dystopia presented in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury was born in August of 1920, and by the age of ten discovered the wealth of information available at his local library. However, no one imagined the creation he would write some thirty years later. First titled The Fireman, Fahrenheit 451 soon gained interest because of the anti-utopian setting in which the novel takes place. Bradbury uses the horrific idea of book burning in Fahrenheit 451 in response to the persecutions resulting from a fear of …

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