Fiction Authors :: Biographies

Fiction AuthorsFor more than half a century comprehension fiction writers have thrilled andchallenged readers with visions of the forthcoming and future worlds. Theseauthors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and lifeto be give care at some future time. One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilizedthis image in his work, Fahrenheit(postnominal) 451, a futuristic look at a man andhis post in society. Bradbury utilizes the luxuries of life in Americatoday, in addition to various occupations and technological advances, toshow what life could be like if the future takes a drastic turn 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 withal uses the concept of society unwrap of control in hisscience fiction novel Brave sassy World. Written late in his career, Brave cutting World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readersto look at the role of sci ence and literature in the future world, scaredthat it may be rendered unusable and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxleyincludes in his book a group 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 contrast todays culture withhis proposed futuristic culture. just now one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common isthe theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approachto life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of variousmethods of break away from reality is shown to be a path to discovery. In BraveNew World, the main characters of Bernard Marx and the Savage boy Johnboth come to piddle the faults with their own cultures. In Fahrenheit 451Guy Montag begins to discover that things could be correct in his societybut, sue to some uncontrollable events, his discover happens more fasterthan it would have. He is force d out on his own, away from society, to sleep togetherwith 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, illegalisebecause they were old and did not encourage the new culture. By visiting areservation, home of an uncivilized culture of savages, he is able to see initiatory hand something of what life and society use to be like. Afterwards hereturns and attempts to incorporate some of what he saw into his work as an