Fahrenheit 451 | Literary Precedents
Fahrenheit 451 is set solidly within the tradition of dystopian literature as exemplified by such works as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1931) and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Such literature portrays an imaginary world where misguided attempts to create a Utopia, or a socially and politically perfect place, result in large-scale human misery. Montag's conversion from servant to opponent of the totalitarian state clearly parallels Winston Smith's transformation in Orwell's novel. Other 1950s works written in a similar vein as Fahrenheit 451 include Frederik Pohl and C....
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