(Bradbury 50). Even the teaching of knowledge is speed up. "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored"(Bradbury 51). This society keeps going forward at breakneck speeds, no time to glimpse at itself in the mirror and see what’s wrong whereas the reader is all too well aware of the dystopia before him.The society within the novel keeps pushing itself to be blissful and painless; they do not look back and see their dystopia whereas Montag does as Clarisse makes him think. Montag has been pushed along with society until he met Clarisse. It took a question from Clarisse, "Are you Happy?"(Bradbury 9), and an old lady who burned with her books to change Montag's views about the society he lives in. Montag soon becomes a rebel and goes against the ways of the society. Controllers of this world eradicate Clarisse, in view of the fact that she is a loose cannon of thoughts to the society. This is what the society has come to, it will due anything to preserve their little delusions of happiness. Montag is an example of what thoughts and books can do to a citizen in this futuristic society. The power of thought can open the eyes and truly bring to light how the society really is; in chaos. In Once and Future King shows a society that is unlike this dystopia of censorship, it is unlike any society so far discussed in this paper.T.H. White's Once and Future King brings forth a utopia that King Arthur constructs, but is in danger by the teachings of Toirdealbhach to Arthur's ill made son and the Orkney boys. Arthur is able to construct this Utopian kingdom do to his childhood lessons from Merlin, a wise and powerful mage. While Arthur is still a young boy Merlin, using his archon mystical powers, transforms him into a fish, afterward an ant, and then a goose. As a fish Arthur learned that of authority and strength but learns ...
