Fiction Authors :: Biographies

Fiction AuthorsFor more than half a century science manufacturing writers have thrilled andchallenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. Theseauthors offered an insight into what they expected man, high society, and brioto be like at or so future time. One such(prenominal) author, Ray Bradbury, utilizedthis concept in his work, Fahrenheit 451, a futurist picture at a man andhis role in society. Bradbury utilizes the luxuries of career in Americatoday, in addition to various occupations and technological advances, to take what life could be like if the future takes a drastic do work for theworse. He turns mans best friend, the dog, against man, changes the roleof public servants and changes the value of a person.Aldous Huxley alike drills the concept of society tabu of control in hisscience fiction novel hold out New World. Written late in his career, intrepidNew World in like manner deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readersto look a t the role of science and literature in the future world, panickedthat it may be rendered useless and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxleyincludes in his book a company of people unaffected by the changes in society,a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longerpart of the changed society, to compare and course todays culture withhis proposed futuristic culture.But one group that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common isthe theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive overtureto life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of variousmethods of escape from reality is shown to be a travel plan to discovery. In BraveNew World, the main characters of Bernard Marx and the Savage boy tooshieboth come to realize the faults with their own cultures. In Fahrenheit 451 twat Montag begins to discover that things could be better in his societybut, sue to some uncontrollable events, his discover happens much fasterthan it wou ld have. He is forced out on his own, away from society, to livewith others like himself who think differently that the society does.Marx, from the civilized culture, seriously questions the lack of historythat his society has. He also wonders as to the lack of books, bannedbecause they were old and did not encourage the forward-looking culture. By visiting areservation, home of an uncivilized culture of savages, he is able to seefirst hand something of what life and society use to be like. Afterwards hereturns and attempts to incorporate some of what he sawing machine into his work as an