Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And 1984

Thomas Paine once said, “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.” In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the protagonist, works as a fireman. Throughout the novel, he begins to discover his true self. In this utopian society, people are conceited and have little or no emotions. Similarly, many in our society are self-centered and have limited feelings. Even though both societies have numerous characteristics in common, the two societies have multiple differences.

The most recognizable similarity is that Tom Robinson from To Kill A Mockingbird, and Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God, went through a trial.They were both African Americans with the jury being "twelve white men [who] had stopped whatever they were doing to listen..." (Hurston 185). They were also both charged for a crime they did not commit. However, this is where the contrasts come into play. In Tom's case, he was accused for raping and beating Mayella, when in reality he did not. In Janie's case, she shot Tea Cake to defend herself, but was accused of first degree murder. The biggest dissimilarity in this is that Tom's verdict was guilty and Janie's was innocent, whcih was rare for that time because "when it was a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins" (Lee 220).

The different themes we talked about this year in class all relate to the books, letters, documentaries, and passages we read or watched. Unit one was all about the importance of reading and why we need to read and go to school. It’s an important topic because reading is power and thought and when you take away thought you take away free speech, which is a theme we went over this year; the importance of free speech. Unit 2 was about the american dream and the importance of being able to choose your own destiny.

When Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, he created several characters that seem to foil each other. These characters have different ideas on the importance of things such as society, happiness, knowledge, and the government. Though some of their opinions differ, there are some similarities in what they represent. There are several characters that oppose each other in the novel but think or act alike. At first, it seems like Captain Beatty, the captain of the firemen, and Guy Montag, the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, share many of the same opinions about books and morality. However, as Montag struggles to make the right decision, the relationship between the two firemen develops, and there is a more obvious opposition between them. Their thoughts

“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatter and charcoal ruins of history.”(page 3) This shows that Montag had embraced censorship with burning books because the civilization has kept him captive without him even knowing it. Clarisse is talking to Montag about what firemen really do in their job, and how she mentioned their initial jobs was to put out fires. Montag replied, “No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it.”(page 8) This illustrates how being a fireman in this society manipulates the mind into a state of ignorance. Montag had adapted to his censored

Throughout the first part of the story, Montag is hopeless; Clarisse turns his hopelessness into an idea for change. Montag’s storyline revolves around his life as a book-burner and the sorrow he feels for destroying the change his society needs. Montag begins, “Last night I thought about all the kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books” (55).

In Fahrenheit 451 Montag changes in many ways. In the beginning he is a simple man with a job as a firefighter burning houses with books. Throughout the story he begins to change and do what he feels is right, which is to steal the books and read to gain knowledge from them. Once a common man in the beginning, has a complete different view by the end of the book . The whole world was now looking at him as an awful criminal.

Montag is a fireman rebel. He does not conform with society in Fahrenheit 451. The media/government has brain washed the people into believing that books are bad. Clarisse McClellan confirmed that Guy Montag was different because she noticed that he was aware, and

The book I am responding to is Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury.What kind of person is Montag? Montag is a person that is very laid back and a respectful person. Montag job is a firemen and people are scared of firemen.One day a seventeen year old girl name Clarisse came up to him.And they had a decent converestaion.He never did nothing rudeto her ,he listen and was being respect.Even though she was annoying and aggaving him.Montag is a person that have a quick temper buut he quick to get it back to normal. “I am not angry ,upset,yes”(20).This when Clarisse was upsetting him when she were tell the truth about how he not in love.The he starting thinking and doubting himself.Montag is also a person they stayed to himself.For

As demonstrated in both the movie WALL-E directed by Andrew Stanton and the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is a warning to today's society of the dangers the world will be in, if humans do not do something to fix it. Ultimately it will be ruined; with the process being irreversible. Technology is a growing today in many ways and had a such role in both movie and story. The world the characters are living in is a dystopia. Both environments are or all ready destroyed and polluted due to lack of human care. Depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a society where books are illegal and burned. It is meant to be a warning of the effects on technology, and how it can be too dangerous, if they are taking over everything. In WALL-E

Introduction - Man over the years has thought of a very simple, yet controversial question, “can man destroy itself?”.

Dystopian societies are “perfect” to the people who live in them. There are many differences between dystopian society and modern American society such as the first responders in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, handicaps in the film 2081, and slaves in the novel Strike by D.J. MacHale. In the dystopian novel fahrenheit 451 written Ray Bradbury the first responders are not different and similar to modern American society. In fahrenheit 451 the first responders are more calm and act like handymen and don’t really care but in modern American society, first responders are tense and act like professionals and care a lot and want to save lives when the “handymen” are just talking and smoking and could care less. The point of modern American first responders is to save lives when the point of the first responders in 451 is to resurrect the dead.

Montag is the main character in the book Fahrenheit 451 and Trumann is the main character in the Truman Show. They are similar in many ways, one similarity being that they are intelligent. Montag is intelligent because he thinks by himself and makes fast, smart decisions. He also shows great integrity. He is intelligent because he knows how the fireman search for people with books and knows how to find the people who have them.

In the book Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury does a pretty good job telling about the future. He wrote about what he believes the future will be like if we keep watching television and not reading as many books. For the most part Bradbury is right, he believes that people are paying too much attention to television and that human behavior will change and we will pay less attention to those around us. Bradbury also writes what he believes humans will act like and many of those have already come true and I wouldn’t be surprised if more of Bradbury’s ideas come true later on in the future as more and more people spend more time with electronics and less time in social interactions.

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and ‘Fahrenheit 451’ are both dystopian novels published just after the end of the Second World War. ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell is set in ‘Airstrip One’; the ‘future’ England, which has become a totalitarian government that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as ‘thoughtcrime’. ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury however, is set in a future American society where books are outlawed and any found are burned. Both novels explore how governments can oppress their citizens by propaganda, such as the Big Brother posters everywhere, which are meant to give the citizens a feeling of protection, and also denying them the right to knowledge and individualism.