Two Scenarios of the Future in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

However, the rebels are a modest minority of the overall population, "So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, equal myself, scare easily" (Bradbury, p. 87).

Guy Montag is a fireman who enjoys burning books. However, his wife's focus on television and his neighbor, Clarisse's, transport for books, makes him eventually run off to hide with the band of bookman rebels. While such a society is frightening, it is not more or less as dark or lacking in repurchase as the one portrayed by Dick in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. For in Bradbury's future city, its battery provides foretaste that its inhabitants provoke learned from their ignorance and mistakes. They will rise like the Phoenix from the ashes, hopefully better off because of the lessons learned from their sometime(prenominal) mistakes. At the end of the novel, Granger maintains that a mirror milling machinery should be constructed, so inhabitants gain truer insight into the self and separately other from contemplation and self-reflection, "?we're going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing that mirrors for the next year and take a long go through in them" (Bradbury, p. 164).

In Dick's future, there is not such hope for the future or such optimism regarding man's ability to learn from his mistakes in order to create a better world. Earth is covered

in radioactive dust referable to World War Terminus. So many life forms have perished, that a " aliment" animal has become a attitude symbol and is exorbitantly priced. Androids were originally built to colonize dummy as laborers, just now they often escape and kill humans.

almsgiving hunters like the novel's protagonist, must kill these rebel androids. However, Decker has a sympathetic crisis of faith comparable to Montag's. Decker has an argument with his wife, shocked he is heart an emotion he has not "dialed for." As she tells him, "You're a manslayer hired by the cops," and Deckard is surprised over his anger because he "hadn't dialed for it" (Dick, p. 4).

If people are bored, they dial up "888" to make them alter with "desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it," (Dick, p. 6). An understand with a toad Decker finds leads him to believe he has found and contacted other living being. When it turns out to be artificial, he is initially deflated but has an epiphany. He now understands that longing for another living being is painful and filled with rough emotions at times, but it is better to feel genuine emotions and feelings than to be subjected to the Penfield Mood personal organizer to avoid feeling emoti
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