Comparison Of The Characters In Fahrenheit 451

When reading becomes a crime Book lover 's worst nightmare, when reading a book become a crime. Imagine if we live in a society where books been criminalized, and a system that considers whoever keeps, reads, or carries a book is a criminal and the books should be burned. Guy Montag is the main character in the novel “Fahrenheit 451” where he works as a firefighter and his duty is not to put fires out as you would think, but create fire to burn books. Furthermore, comparing Montag from the novel”Fahrenheit 451” with Georg Dreyman who is the main character in the movie “The Lives of Others”, Georg is a writer in East Germany where we see a Totalitarian regime. The Totalitarian regime is trying to control peoples ' minds, and fill it with a ready package that only serve and entertain the regime’s benefits. Both Montag and Georg lived in a similar environment because the …show more content…
He was a very successful writer, respected by the public as well as by the secret police. One of the officers said,” If everybody like Georg we will not have a job”. Suddenly everything changed, the minister Hempf liked Christa-Maria and he tried to find anything against Georg so could have Christa for himself. Minster Hempf ordered the secret police to bug Georg’s apartment and assign the mission to Officer Hauptman, who said but this is not what swear on being the advocate of the party, but what happened is the officer Hauptman sympathize with George and help him. a Major event happened to Georg made him doubt everything he believed in when a famous writer and a director named Jerska commit a suicide by hanging himself. Most of the artists looked up highly of Jerska, at that time, Georg decides it’s time to do something, and write a report about the numbers of person 's suicide in East Germany that the government trying to cover up and publish it in West