Farenhiet 451

I read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, which is a novel full of symbols criticizing the modern world. Among those symbols appears The Hound. The Hound’s actions and even its shape are reflections of the society Bradbury has predicted to come. Montag’s world continues on without thought; without any real reason. There is no learning, no growth, and no purpose. “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in …

…it attacks its victim, it injects lethal doses of morphine, causing the person to experience drowsiness and fall into a deep relaxing sleep, unaware that they will never wake up. This is a very good book which describes the bad side of our society and how might it turn out. Compared to other books such as 2001 Space Odyssey and The Brave New World this is a very different book and shows signs of a dystopia.