... wants to happen, so that one is oblivious to their surroundings. (3) Destruction of property and objects in nature are used to show censorship. The burning of literature at a high a temperature shows how the government is trying to rid the people of having a mind of their own. In nature there are many substances ... and the keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in people's heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry-rot, and men with matches-(Montag 155). Montag makes this statement later in the book, as a result finally finding .....

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... inhospitable habitat by ecological understanding. However, it is still a curiously underused sub-genre, especially in the face of the rise of environmental awareness in the 1960's. The aesthetics of dystopian literature is another aspect that plays a key role. Dystopian stories frequently take place in landscapes that diminish people, like huge cities with mastodontic architecture or vast wastelands devastated by war and ... more and more under state control. The hero Alex revolts against the state using violence and is subsequently incarcerated for his crimes. Later he is turned into a...

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