... 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 harmless subject lacking free will, physically unable to commit any crime. Burgess paints a future outlook of a land that is still committed to democracy, yet has already adapted radical methods facing youth criminality. There ... are several indications leading to the supposition that the general form of the government is a socialist one, e.g. the teenage slang called Nadsat which handles chiefly Russian vocabulary, streets...

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... are changed or altered in the media. "Common knowledge-is often wrong. Well, then, what is right? That's a much more complicated question, and the answers usually serve the interests of the people promoting those so-called answers" (Kick 6). People do not realize that the knowledge the media hands them is not always right. They accept it, for the most part, without questioning ... ...

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... who helps Montag escape the city. He also serves as a mentor to Montag, teaching him what he knows about the value of books. On a metaphorical level, Faber symbolizes the tool of learning. This eventually leads to Montag realizing the true meaning of a book, and that a book is the only escape from ... saving 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 ... the ...

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