Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Minority Report

Dystopia is common theme which dates hundreds of years in literature worldwide. Dystopian novels and short stories often depict a society repressed by a totalitarian government which comes to power after a cataclysmic occurrence, wielding unforgiving power and control over inhabitants for their own good. These dystopias are often perceived by the average citizen as a normal or unavoidable way of life, sometimes even a better way of life, yet there is often a single person or group of protagonists who question the justification of such living arrangements and threaten upheaval of the utopia sold by the ruling class.

A dystopian novel is a novel that is a futuristic world in which ordinary things are restricted or taken away, thinking they have made a perfect world, A utopia is the opposite of a distopia the utopian world is a perfect world . We are reading 2 books called Farenheit 451 and The House of The Scorpion both of these books are dystopian novels.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, one of the major morals in the book is censorship, and a short story Coda by the same author, talks about the censorship that happens to his books and how this ruins society. In Coda, Bradbury states that those who edit out “subjective” things in his book, “Skin, debone, demarrow, scarcify melt, render down, and destroy” ( Bradbury 2) his books. They take all the subjective and beautiful descriptions and turn them into plain, simple, and boring things. They censor what might offend, but they censor it too much to the point where it makes a book, “become a non-book” ( Bradbury 5). Censorship in Fahrenheit 451 is the same way. As Beatty, the captain of the firemen says, “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book” (Bradbury 57). This is another example of the censorship because it shows the way they try to keep peace by keeping everyone ignorant. This isn’t the way that peace should be kept. Both of these texts have strong ties to the way society censors things that may make people upset and how it isn’t right because it takes away individuality and opinions to keep peace.

Dystopia is a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.

In Fahrenheit 451 censorship causes a loss of societal growth, individual thought and personal happiness. In the futuristic world Bradbury has created, firemen start fires rather than extinguishing them. People in this society do not think independently nor do they have meaningful

At the point when the native's key rights are wiped out, the general public turns out to be only a deception of a utopia.The two works being discussed in this exposition are Minority Report, coordinated by Steven Spielberg and Fahrenheit 451, composed by Ray Bradbury. In Minority Report, a cutting edge innovation is used to secure culprits previously they submit their demonstration of savagery. In Fahrenheit 451, a future in which books are unlawful and where the result is the consuming of his/her home is displayed. The two tragic attributes that were shown in the two works was a correctional framework that needs due process laws and steady observation by police organizations. The consequence of these tragic social orders made a hindered society

A false perception of happiness due to censorship causes the society to become unhappy with their lives and to become emotionally numb. The society questions their lives and purpose. In Fahrenheit 451:

In Fahrenheit 151, a book written by Ray Bradbury, one of the major points of the plot is censorship. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist, begins to steal books from the fires he’s responded to and hides them inside his air vent. Beatty, his chief, explains how books used to be and how citizens were horrified and offended by them. Authors began to edit their books, trying not to offend anyone, and as a result, began to create dull and boring books. Society then decided to burn all the books then have more people offended by them. Montag then decides to talk to Faber, a retired professor who team up to start planting reprinted books in houses for firemen to find. After trying to show his wife about the books and how useful they are, his wife betrays Montag by burning his house down. This was society’s way of censorship, by banning books that promote free thinking.

While there are many comparable characters between the story and the film, the most prominent similarities are with Jon Anderton and Guy Montag. For example, both men had government jobs in the beginning that they both deemed was ‘respectable’, but in the end had betrayed to follow their own free will. In “Fahrenheit 451”, Guy’s wife Mildred had turned him in after an incident regarding her and her friends, while similarly in “Minority Report”, Jon’s ex-wife Lara had informed Burgess of Jon’s arrival in secret. Beatty and Lamar Burgess are also comparable, as they both were leaders of an association that was intended to prevent an action even though they both committed the crimes, and they both died at the hands of the protagonist.

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a dystopian novel about a society living under the concept that no one should be sad, and this goal is achieved by mandating all the firemen to burn books. Firemen being ordered to burn books seem strange, but books have the ability to make people sad, with the ideas that are in them, however, this is a misconception that the characters of Fahrenheit 451 have. The government wants everyone to be happy, and by banning books, the government thinks they are doing the right thing. The author, Ray Bradbury, is explaining that the government banning something as an attempt to solve a problem actually makes the society suffer more.

In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, firemen are paid to burn books and the buildings they are kept in, which, in turn, takes away everyone’s freedom of thought. A theme of this book is censorship. Guy Montag was a fireman who never thought twice about his job; that is until he met Clarisse McClellan. She got Montag thinking about what he really was doing with his life and, in time, he decided that he did not want to keep burning books. Beatty, the fire captain, wants to keep things the way they already are. He represents the theme of ignorance in the book.

Both of the societies in Fahrenheit 451 and Minority Report are illusions of an ideal utopian world. When Beatty tells Montag about the history of the firemen, he explains, “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag” (Bradbury 57). In the society of F451, there is a censorship of all literature for the strive of political correctness and to preserve people’s emotions. It seems to be ideal that there will be no material to offend people, however, realistically, it is impossible to achieve universal political correctness and the burning of literature simply causes the citizens to lack free thought and, more concerningly, any genuine thought. Comparatively, in

The use of censorship to examine and eliminate elements in media that are found to be unorthodox or radical has been prevalent in society for centuries. Through censorship, ideas found to be objectionable or offensive are repressed. In his prophetic novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury denotes the common practice of government censorship of books as a suppressive and marginalizing concept for humans because it strips them of the realities, truths, and meaning behind books and deprives them the freedom to deliberate and act on them. The protagonist, Guy Montag lives in a futuristic, American society and is a ‘firemen’; a group of men that deflect the old conventional purpose of stopping fires, to creating

A dystopian society, usually illusory, is the reverse of an idyllic utopia: it is generally tyrannical and inhibited. Dystopian societies mirror our future- they are usually a hyperbolic familiar society with satirical exaggeration. This kind of literature is written to amend other people 's idea of the kind of society they should thrive for. As well as that, they are written to express their concerns about the future and humanity. Societies of this nature appear in many works of fiction, predominantly in novels set in a speculative future. Dystopian culture is often mused by societal collapse, dehumanization, poverty, and deprivation.

By definition, dystopian texts are texts which take place in a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Throughout the last two to three hundred years, dystopian themes have been present in major, widely-circulated texts, with the earliest listed dystopian text, Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”, dating back to 1726. And, while the 1800’s saw a good influx of dystopian texts, the first to catch my eye, and really grab hold of my attention wasn’t published until 1949: George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”.