Essay Example of Dystopian Societies
Dystopian Societies Two stories that have shown significant discriptions of a dystopian society would be the novel, Farhenheit 451, and the film, The Island. As dystopian societies, they both have a protagonist who ventures out of the rules and restrictions and finds a new beginning. Farhenheit 451's protagonist, named Guy Montag, was dissapointed with his marrige, and the horrific distractions he faced throught his daily life. With no books in his society, many citizens where uneducated with the divercity of their history and their beginnings. The Island's protagonist, named Licoln 6-Eco, was tired of no answers to all his questions, and was annoyed with how his life never changed. He wanted more than just to go to 'The Island', and when he saw that 'The Island' was not real, he escaped. Bringing a friend, named Jordan 2-Delta, he faced the horrors of what the people wanted, and that was to live forever... No matter the costs and losses. Even if that loss is their own clone. Essentially, both stories withhold a substantial amount of oppressive social control, they both appear perfect but in reality they have major problems, and both storylines have the protagonist who escapes and destruction of the horrible society becomes it's fate. First, to make a well working dystopia, it needs a great amount of oppressive social control. In Farhenheit 451, Guy Montag never has any time to his own, nor does he have time for his own thoughts, even on the subway train, "The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dentifrice Denifrice, one two, one two three, one two, one two three. The people whose mouths had been faintly twitching the words Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice. The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great tonload of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass. The people were pounded into submission; they did