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Dystopia - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Shaurya and Shreyus Dystopia- Dystopia is an imagined society where there is great suffering and injustice. A dystopian society is usually overruled by an authoritarian figure which controls every action and behaviour of each citizen. The citizens lead dejected and dehumanised lives, where they remain fearful as whatever they do can lead them into danger. A dystopian society is either totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
        
        HArshits Historical and Cultural Context of the text- Fahrenheit 451 reflects to the time when Ray Bradbury wrote this text; in the 1the Cold War.
- - - - the historic signifcans of the book was to showcase the world if the nazi ideolagy won. it was however not writen for that purpose but as a realistic fiction. the book itself reflected the life of the nazi control with extencive falacies and cencorship
- - - - 3RD LINK - - Inspiration for writing - Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury said, was a depiction of a society willfully dumbing itself down by staring at screens, stuffing its collective consciousness with useless factoids, empty ideas, and throwaway reality. Bradbury forewarned us all of the coming dawn of the 70-inch flat-screen culture we inhabit today.
        
        4th LINK - Which characteristics of dystopia were seen in the book?
        
        Control: Complete control over the people through propaganda, censorship, and denial of free thought
        
        Conformity: Heavy enforcement of conformity, where people are forced to be similar and conform to the government's rules and expectations
        
        Fear: Citizens have a fear of the outside world
        
        Technological control: Society is controlled by technology, such as computers, robots, and scientific means
- - - - Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 during the Second Red Scare and the McCarthy era. He was inspired by:
        
        The book burnings in Nazi Germany
        
        The censorship that accompanied the Red Scare
        
        The ideological repression in the Soviet Union
        
        Darkness at Noon, a novel by Arthur Koestler about the victim of a show trial in Stalinist Russia
        
        Bradbury's claimed motivation for writing the novel has changed multiple times. He said that the book-burnings in Fahrenheit 451 were inspired by the 1933 Nazi book-burnings. However, he was more likely inspired by the censorship that accompanied the Red Scare of his own era.