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Dystopia In Fahrenheit 451
Do you know what a true utopia is? What's the difference between a utopia and a dystopia? In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury wrote about how a utopia, became a dystopia really fast. There are many different ideas that can be viewed differently and how every society has distinct views. Some ideas like that are the basics that we would not think is viewed differently like family and emotions.
First of all family can be viewed in many ways. In Fahrenheit 451 the family´s do not love each other and are not real families. At one point, we figure out that Mildred thinks that the TV is her family and thinks they have a close relationship. This is really different from our society because we have actual families that we were born with. But we are similar

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