Differences Between Pleasantville And Fahrenheit 451

Besides sound effects and visuals in a movie, descriptive language in a book, both are usually very similar. Specifically, between the book and the movie Fahrenheit 451, the two share many of the main ideas, but have multiple differences. A couple of the top major differences in the movie are that Clarisse doesn’t die and they omit to tell or mention that there is a war going on. Some similarities are the characters personalities and looks. All of these things have impact on how the movie and book contrast and compare to each other.

The freedom to think is often taken for granted among civilization. What people do not realize is that their freedom of thought can be controlled with enough deceit and manipulation. Sometimes, most people do not even know that the way they think is being controlled. This fact is proven in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The book peers into a dystopian society led by a corrupt government. Total mental and political control is what the government wants, while freedom of thought is what they do not want. These goals are achieved through means that are subtle, and obvious: manipulation through social media, through legal restrictions, and through the destruction of books.

The idea of free speech is nearly universally accepted in the modern world. Places where free speech is limited are almost never a truly positive society. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, free speech is changed by removing mediums to express ideas and by threatening punishments for speaking out. Bradbury warns that the consequences of these alterations are a close-minded approach to life and an addiction to mindless entertainment.

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, censorship plays a significant role in the dystopian society. The novel illustrates what it would be like if the government had full control of what society reads, watches, or communicates. According to Bradbury, this perpetuates ignorance because society blindly obeys the government. Most people in the novel are unaware of their unhappiness with society, including Mildred, Guy Montag’s wife, who almost commits suicide by mistakenly taking an entire bottle of sleeping pills. Censorship has a great effect on the personalities and knowledge of the people in the society. The society is essentially “trapped” in a toxic world filled with ignorance (Mogen 105). The government feels by controlling all forms of media, society should be cooperative and happy; however, once citizens become distracted by the consequences of owning and reading books, unhappiness and chaos occur. Reading books promotes knowledge, which encourages people to think, but because of censorship, the society has become ignorant.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury books are the sworn enemy and only thing keeping people from happiness. Since books take away happiness, people start to question or even shun them. Bradbury’s society has taught people to value tangible things rather than fictional books. Books aside, the society made other, less time consuming things for people to do with their free time. Since these activities do not require much brain power, the general public’s attention span has decreased greatly. However, other people take the discouragement of books as motivation to further preserve the classics. It depends on if they are able to see through the ploy, or if they get caught up in it. The effects of censorship on individuals and/or society in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are a general distrust of books and people who read them, a very limited attention span in a pleasure-seeking people, and rebellion in the form of memorization.

“People need quality information, the leisure to digest it, and the freedom to act on what has been learned.”(Bradbury 85) When these aspects are removed from a society, human beings lose every right to freedom and individualism. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 and the short story Harrison Bergeron, this proves to be more than true. These pieces of literature each display similar values of society, technological advancements, rebellious acts, and a human desire for fulfillment of equality.

The First Amendment grants the freedom of speech for all United States citizens. Envision not possessing this right, but also not being able to think freely. If a future filled with no individual expression and everyone and everything looking the same came to mind, you were close, but not quite there. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is about a war ridden society that restricts the freedom of thought through the practice of banning and burning books. An analysis of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 displays change is needed because it opens one’s eyes which is illustrated by his use of character interaction, detailed events, and revealing the character’s thoughts.

Pleasantville is 90’s movie that is all about personal expression and breaking conformity by using a motif of color that represents freedom. It could be viewed as a visual successor to the giver in its idea that perfection is rarely perfect because you loose the humanity element. Pleasantville at the beginning is a closed minded society. Everyone does their job and doesn't think about it.

A key part of being a disgusted individual is having the ability to think for oneself without the interference of an outside influence. Society is made of a multitude of characteristics from individuals that not only introduce diversity but also a common ground for people to express their individuality. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Kurt Vonnegut's, Harrison Bergeron epitomizes an image of the effects of a repressive and controlling society. Both stories take place in futuristic false utopia where one’s individualism is nearly obsolete due the government’s establishment of irrational and unjust laws. Although there are distinctions between the two stories, there

Imagine living in a society where the government restricts you from reading or knowing the information you would want to know. How would you feel? Well, that’s the society in Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451. The book is set in the future and Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books, instead of putting fires out. The people in the society are very dull, they watch excessive amounts of television and listens to the radio on “seashell radio,” in their ears.

Many people read books, many also walk outside, and many enjoy Democracy and all the perks it comes with. But In Ray Bradbury’s Farhenheit 451. All of these things are taken from the citizens. This new portrayal of a dystopia is totalitarian and essentially legalised controversy. Although our two world have many similarities we more differences where it counts. Democracy is only good if there is controversy, You need several options, for president, for political party and much more. However their world has no controversy, in fact there government type is based off of not asking questions and just doing whatever the government

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses characterization, setting, and figurative language to show censorship limits people’s thinking and it have a negative effect on people’s life.

Because of individual freedoms and choices, citizens of the United States have the opportunity to be unique and to pursue their wildest dreams. The freedoms and opportunities offered to Americans allow them to dare to dream and achieve as long as they are willing to work and sacrifice. Imagine living in other countries where oppressive governments take away individual rights and take control of what citizens read, watch, and discuss—where free thought is prohibited and pursuing individual success and prosperity is impossible. This is the case in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Books have been outlawed and citizens’ rights to question, think and learn from the past have been taken away. The state, in its attempt to prevent people from debating and sharing ideas, has also prohibited the building of front porches on homes to discourage communication. Through the actions of various characters, Bradbury shows the disastrous consequences of such strict governmental controls and censorship. Through his use of symbolism in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury portrays the themes of destruction and rebirth in a dystopian society.

The world without books is like pulling the feathers off of a bird, expecting it to fly. In Ray Bradbury’s novel "Fahrenheit 451" and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's letter "You Have Insulted Me" they both discuss how one sided society has become, limiting the publics freedom to express their own thoughts. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. states, in his letter "you are American you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not clearly on your own." When things are kept one sided it causes people or "students" in Vonnegut's case to be completely oblivious to the other side of things. Limiting the ability to create ones own beliefs, separate from others views.

In an effort to gain control of people and create a sterile environment, independent thought is censored and people are brain-fed what they are supposed to think so that there are no clashing opinions. The social phenomenon of marginalizing accords lesser importance to a group of people, which in turn results in the rest of society looking down upon that group of people and becoming intolerant. From this, both an intolerant and ignorant society is created because people become oblivious of their surroundings after being told how to think and behave, and intolerant to those that chose to live their life apart from the societal norms. When Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, describes the oblivious, almost dead-like state of the book’s futuristic society, he implies that people have been forced to become ignorant to their environment because they have been compelled to their devices, to be away from things that may constitute controversial opinions. Bradbury emphasizes the ignorance of that society through the character of Clarisse McClellan, a girl curiously enticed by her surroundings, who criticizes the lack of livingness of people in that society when she argues that, “I sometimes think drivers don’t know what the colour of grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly.” (pg.6) Clarisse is emphasizing how suppressing the ideas of people that try to be different, pushes them to conform to the traditional manners of society, which is ignorance. Evidence of intolerance and ignorance in society can be recognized in the article Please offend me – and let me offend you by University Professor Pablo Martin de Holan, when he contends that suppressing the thoughts of individuals in society causes intolerance and ignorance. In his article, Holan laments that, “Offensive (by the listener’s standards) speech is less and less accepted, as we become more