Truth Is Necessary To End Dystopian Societies

For as long as dystopian novels have existed, they have gone almost synonymously with grand illusion. The entire novel is spent in a quest to find the truth of the society around them, in an effort to tear down the walls of the dysfunctional, often tyrannical society that they live in. However, they are wrong, truth is not what tears down illusion in dystopian societies; truth is the motivation and creator for illusion in dystopian societies. In this paper, I will argue against the perception that truth is necessary to end dystopian societies using examples from Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 using texts from philosopher Ben Yacobi journal on Truth and Illusion to support my claims. The article that will be used for support in textual analysis
Phelps: “I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings” (Bradbury 97). Followed by Mon-tag’s reply stating that she should go home, and think about how she lost all of her husbands, and past abortions, and how her kids hate her, in hopes that she will actually feel and be human for a change (Bradbury 98). This textual excerpt is a prime example of how truth fuels illusion. In the society of Fahrenheit 451, people wanted to stop feeling, to stop thinking. This is apparent in the scene between Montag and Mildred’s friends. They had stopped thinking long ago, they did not feel loss or pain. They were a part of a numbed society, and poetry, filled with emotion, had the power to make them feel. So they chose to watch it burn and do away with emotion. The society did not just occur overnight, but rather by choice. The people had grown tired of the harsh reali-ties of life, and decided to relinquish this responsibility. They traded in their freedom, the arts, everything that could cause the any time of hardship, and they replaced it by fueling primal de-sires. The clung to driving fast cars and moving so fast that the mind simply could not hold thought. From that they let go of emotional connection, they allowed their only care to belong to themselves, so that loss and heartbreak could no
In fact, it is the opposite. Using excerpts from dystopian novels of Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell’s 1984, along with analyt-ical support for Ben Yacobi’s essay on Life Between Illusion and Reality, I was able to support my claim. This was shown specifically from Fahrenheit 451’s society and how it actively chose illusion over truth in an effort to meet physical desire and block out unwanted negative emotion. It was also backed up by excerpts on the political rise of the government in 1984, and how the majority ultimately chose the desired illusions of freedom in equality of the reality. And lastly, the argument was solidified by excerpts from dialogue between characters Wilson and O’Brien in 1984, which argued whether or not truth had the power to topple a dystopian regime, where ul-timately the dystopian regime won, because in harsh realities, people chose to believe illusions rather than suffer hard truths. From all of this, it is simple to conclude in favor of the argument that truth does not have the power to win out over illusion in an effort to topple dystopian societies in literary