Comparison Of Elysium And Fahrenheit 451

Improved Essays
The success a person achieves can change the society around them in drastic ways. Success can be defined as “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose” (oxforddictionary.com). In the works Elysium, directed by Neill Blomkamp and Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, the protagonists’ goal is to overthrow their totalitarian government. In Elysium, Max has the support to get to Elysium because of his allies and enemies due to the powerful program he has in his head. Neither parties will not kill him as the information must be protected, making it easier for Max to achieve his goal and gain success. On the other hand in Fahrenheit 451, Mildred refuses to support Guy Montag’s goal. As a result, Guy attempts to take matters into his own hands, …show more content…
The irrational decisions Guy makes jeopardize the plans between him and Faber. His unreasonable and emotional decisions eventually ruin their plans to rebel against the government. Although Max does not fulfill his personal goal, he experiences more success in his rebellion against the government than Guy due to the leverage he has against both parties and his more rational decisions.
Support from others has a strong impact on how successful a person becomes. In Elysium, Max is more successful in his rebellion due to the support of both the lower and upper class. They both help him reach Elysium due to the sensitive information he carries in his head. When Spider sees the information Max has in his head he explains to Max that, “they will hunt you to the edge of the Earth for this... it’s a reboot program for Elysium. Whoever has this has the power to override the whole system, open the borders, make everyone a citizen of Elysium. This can save your life. We can save everyone.” (Blomkamp, Elysium). Spider’s revelation shows Max that both parties need something he has. With the information in his head, he has leverage against everyone because if he is
…show more content…
However, Max is more successful as he has support from both parties and makes logical decisions even though he does not fulfil his personal goal. Max was able to reach Elysium with the support he had from Spider and Delacourt due to the valuable information inside his head. On the other hand, Guy has very little support, Mildred does not want anything to do with Guy’s goal and when it interferes with her social life, she betrays him. In addition, Max was able to make logical decisions, whereas Guy makes plentiful illogical decisions that nearly lead to his demise. Success is not about the end of the journey, but about the decisions a person makes and the support they have throughout the journey that define how successful a person is. “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.” (Conroy,

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    What if in our world, knowledge was limited and nobody could truly connect with anybody on a personal level? Well, in the society of the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, both of these things are happening. The society created in the book and our society today may look and sound very different, yet that’s not all there is to it. In many ways, this supposed “utopian” society of Fahrenheit 451 and our society that we live in today are very different, nonetheless, the two also have their similarities and are alike in many different ways.…

    • 1035 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Jim Murphy’s book Inner Excellence intrigues me because it breaks down how the mind works. Often times people sell themselves short on life goals or wonder why they aren’t happy once they reach their goal. Various techniques are shown throughout the book to help to assess your mental wellbeing. This book shows you how to become mentally tough and apply it to any aspect of life: business, school, athletic, or casual. Success is the ultimate goal in life, but how much of success is mental?…

    • 1269 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fahrenheit 451 VS. Hunger Games As I read the book Fahrenheit 451, I started to notice that that book had a lot of things in common with the book hunger games. Both authors use fire in their stories, and both books are controlled by the government.…

    • 1656 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As the world progresses, dystopias such as Fahrenheit 451 and Wall-E start to look look more and more plausible. In both stories, the government or leader controls the people with censorship and pacification. In these dystopias, people do not interact with each other in a meaningful way, people simply sit and are absorbed in their technology. This technology use is turning the people of these tales into mindless idiots. All of these things are starting to happen in the real world.…

    • 1004 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Society should have the freedom to do things they wanted People should be allowed to think for themselves. People should not feel so overwhelmed over censorship. In the book, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, demonstrates what happens when censorship takes over society. For example, they do not let people listen to what they want to hear.…

    • 683 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fahrenheit 451 Comparison

    • 1562 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Fahrenheit 451 And Saudi Arabia Comparison Essay “Of all dictatorships, a dictatorship sincerely exercised for the good of its people may be the most oppressive.” This quote talks about how the more tyrannical a dictatorship gets, the more strict rules and harsh consequences will be implemented to the people of their country. In Saudi Arabia, the people are living in a dystopian society as rules have harsh consequences, censorship of the internet, and the fear of ISIS. In Fahrenheit 451, people are living in a utopia which turns out to be a dystopia as technology takes care of people problem’s but in return take their humanity away from them, with the censorship of knowledge, and the fear of the hound.…

    • 1562 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Story of Success, is Malcom Gladwell's convincing attempt to challenge the way success has classically been viewed. Gladwell's context, voice and identification of his audience help him adequately impart his message. In chapters three and four, titled "The Trouble with Geniuses" Gladwell recounts highly intellectual people's stories of success or lack thereof. He explains in a clear and straight-forward manner how they got there. It is through his writing style that Gladwell gains the confidence of his readers and effectively presents his case.…

    • 865 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    At first, when Max meets Kevin, Kevin doesn’t display a want to set a good first impression, but when Max helps him get an ornithopter from a tree, they become close friends, despite them being near polar opposites in many ways (personality, capacity for learning, and physical ability). Throughout their friendship, Maxwell learns many new, useful, and trivial things about the world around him (such as how to write) from Kevin, whose only practical method of transportation outside of his home (other than a car or other large vehicle) is riding on Maxwell’s shoulders (much like a piggyback ride). Max and Kevin also go through…

    • 362 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the book “Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment” all of the main protagonist express their importance of family throughout the entire book. Max, Fang, Iggy, Gasman, Nudge and Angel, also referred to as “The Flock”, are mutated children that has never experienced what having a family is like. Everyone has their definition on family, but their definition usually means blood relatives. For the flock it is who they trust and who they love even if they are not of the same blood. Courage is also a recurring theme in this book show by all the protagonists.…

    • 843 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Since, Benjy and Dougie had fled the pack, “the pack had changed and Max would have to change with it or suffer the consequences” (95) because “a pack need[s] unity, and unity mean[s] that all underst[and] the world in the same way or, if not the world, the rules at least” (39). Max’s inability to comply with these changes is what ultimately leads to his…

    • 1015 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition”- Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell, the author of Outliers, views success as granted opportunities and advantages that not everybody is given by fate. Luck dictates how successful a person can be. Luck is achievement or failure supposedly brought by accident rather than through one’s actions. Most people are born without a great amount of luck which makes them work hard to reach their goal while others are born with a lot of luck.…

    • 1374 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Differences: 1. Clarisse and Montag meet for the first time in the street late at night in the book but they meet on the train in the movie. Clarisse is a school teacher and twenty in the movie but a student and seventeen in the book. Clarisse also dies in the book but stays alive in the movie.…

    • 632 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Numerous relate an alternate belief system of what achievement may be, however for two characters it intends to get reality and leaving a stamp and conceivably a heritage behind them. This is dominatingly observed through both Winston and Willy, as Winston writes in journal so as to be recollected in his general public as he tries to uncover reality behind huge sibling and through his activities of perpetrating thoughtcrime; as when he is requested to vaporize an article that BB did not need, Winston pondered it for a concise minute before he did it, hence carrying out thoughtcrime keeping in mind the end goal to uncover reality behind BB and eventually make his progress and leave his stamp; similarly as Goldstein left his. Another character…

    • 253 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He carries around a copy of Mein Kampf, the book that has killed his friends and family. Ironically, it has saved his life because in it he carries his required documents for escape. Instead of escaping he ends up living in Liesel’s basement. Much like Liesel, Max has nightmares and visions of past traumatic events, representing his constant internal state of terror and fear. To Max, the basement could easily just be another place to hide in from the Nazis, but instead he is able to find his coping mechanism for trauma in the basement.…

    • 1047 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The future is a fascinating topic that has perplexed people for decades, and is depicted throughout literature and other media. Future themes are seen in many current movies like the Walking Dead, The Hunger Games, and 12 Monkeys; however, the oldest form of this futuristic genre is seen in novels. Two major novels that fall into the futuristic genre are Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. Brave New World’s future society is greatly different than today. In Brave New World, live births are nonexistent and the government has complete control of society.…

    • 1564 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays