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Utopia through Materials? Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. This materialistic society is where Bradbury believed society today is headed. The materialistic society in Fahrenheit 451 created through Bradbury’s cynic views of society. His views of society are over-exaggerated in contrast with today’s events, especially in the areas of censorship and media mediocrity. The purpose of media is quite simple, it …

…Bradbury’s mind. Censorship in Canada is done by adding in what is missing to make the world more complete, while those in Fahrenheit 451 believe that it is burning, or taking away what one does not agree with. Although Ray Bradbury’s predictions about society today are extreme, one must remind himself that it does not take much to turn the very social society today into a materialistic robot-like society similar to that in Fahrenheit 451.