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    Throughout the 19th century America experienced booming prosperity in economic growth‚ new inventions‚ and diversity. Americans wanted to attain a culture that was unique and did not resemble Europe in any way. Groups dissatisfied with European representations of government and life styles in general‚ initiated Utopian models organized by leaders whose focus was to bring together groups of people to form a perfect society. “UTOPIA is originally a Greek word for an imaginary place where everyone

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    Literature has completely no use to the people in the future created by Bradbury; it takes up “precious” time that they choose to spend on movies and interactive television. Books and other forms of literature are scorned and even against the law in the dystopia of Bradbury’s world. Unlike the “real-world” that the readers live in‚ the value of literature is nonexistent. Our main character‚ Guy Montag‚ is even in the profession of destroying these books and other forms of literature.

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    Hanson‚ Carter F. "The Utopian Function of Memory in Lois Lowry’s The Giver." Extrapolation 50.1 (2009): 45. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Mar. 2016. “The Utopian Function of Memory” by Carter F. Hanson criticizes the role of memory in the plot and formation of aspects in the Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” like how it can be transferred scientifically by touch and how without it‚ the Utopian world could function smoothly. Hanson means to compare this novel’s setting to be similar to the settings of

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    respect from the larger society within which it exists. The films Pleasantville and Die Welle show the power

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    Simpler Times In the Movie Pleasantville‚ two teenagers are taken from a crazy lifestyle; they are teleported to a faraway place called Pleasantville. Where everything is picture perfect‚ the town where everybody is friendly and there are no dangerous things to be found. But a place where everything is perfect isn’t always the case. Things may seem perfect on the outside but are totally different on the inside of Pleasantville. Being perfect still has it drawback even in place where things seem

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    Name Professor Class Date Fahrenheit 451: Final Draft In 1953‚ Ray Bradbury wrote his novel Fahrenheit 451. Since its debut‚ Fahrenheit 451 has been regarded as a masterful work of literary fiction with powerful political commentary‚ akin to George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. According to Willis McNelly‚ “For Bradbury‚ a metaphor is not merely a figure of speech‚ it is a vital concept‚ a method he uses for comprehending one reality and expressing it in terms of another; it permits the reader

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    1.1. EQUALITY First of the key features is equality‚ that helps the society to function properly and be a better place‚ where no citizen is neglected. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English (1996) equality is defined as the quality or state of being equal: the quality or state of having the same rights‚ social status‚ etc. Equality in More’s “Utopia” can be first seen in the similarity between the towns on the island. “There are fifty-four cities on the island‚ all spacious

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    The Government is peeping into our lives through phones‚ laptops‚ streetlights‚ surveillance cameras‚ even drones. This links to the most frightening part in George Orwell’s book‚ 1984‚ which contains surprising similarities between his ways of reviewing what he believed the future would come to. Although his satirical book was written in 1948‚ Orwell displays a variety of aspects relating to the destruction of privacy in our present day. Orwell himself was a socialist‚ who had very strong political

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    1.1 EQUALITY First of the key features is equality‚ that helps the society to function properly and be a better place‚ where no citizen is neglected. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English (1996) equality is defined asthe quality or state of being equal: the quality or state of having the same rights‚ social status‚ etc. Equality in More’s “Utopia” can be first seen in the similarity between the towns on the island. “There are fifty-four cities on the island‚ all spacious

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    Lexi Wylie Burn In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451‚ in which books are illegal in society‚ Guy Montag holds a career as a fireman. Unlike firemen of today who fight fires‚ firemen in Fahrenheit 451 create fires in order to destroy books as well as the knowledge‚ individuality‚ and freedom they hold. Fire plays a crucial role in this novel‚ with Bradbury giving the story “impact and imaginative focus by means of symbolic fire” (Watt 2). As Watt puts it‚ fire is “Montag’s world

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