![]() ![]() ![]() Fahrenheit 451 fits squarely into this dystopian literary tradition. Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel. Yet the Mechanical Hound threatens Montag. Its one of the firemens terrible weapons, but its supposed to be without personality or motivea machine that attacks only what it is programmed to attack. From New Wine, Old Bottles by Gilbert Highet. The Mechanical Hound is one of the more chilling parts of the world of Fahrenheit 451. Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, are among the most-read dystopian novels and short stories of the past century. The Novel: From a Letter to Stanley Kauffmann by Nelson Algren. Rather than create ideal societies meant to serve as models for improvement, authors instead created dystopias, or nightmare societies, designed to sound a warning about modern society's problems. In the 20th century, fictionalized societies frequently took on a darker, oppressive aspect. ![]() Edward Bellamy, writing at the end of the 19th century, imagined an ideal future society in Looking Backward: 2000–1887. Plato's Republic is one of the earliest and best-known utopias, while Sir Thomas More's sixteenth century work Utopia gives the genre its name. Some authors have created utopias, or ideal states, with the intention to show how civilization might be improved. Many authors have created states and societies in their works of fiction and philosophy. ![]()
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