Comparative Essay of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984
I have chosen to write a comparative essay on the two dystopian fictions, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell’s 1984, that we read this year. The two novels are somewhat different yet they have similar messages of the scary course that our society is heading in and our need to not become mindless bystanders that allow it to happen. I find it easy to parallel the writings and I will present the differences and similarities between the two novels as I compare and contrast them.
In both, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell’s 1984, their main characters are very similar in nature and mannerisms. Similarities of Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 and Winston Smith in 1984, are that they both …show more content…
Orwell insists that Winston's fate could happen to anyone, and it is for this reason that Orwell destroys Winston in the end, so that the reader may understand Orwell's warning and see that the society of 1984 never come to pass. Orwell's main goal was to warn of the serious danger totalitarianism poses to society. He goes to great lengths to demonstrate the terrifying degree of power and control a totalitarian regime can acquire hold over the personal rights and freedoms under the all-powerful hand of the government through censorship and ant-intellectualism” (Moustaki).
Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, “sends a very direct message showing readers what can happen if they allow the government to take total control of what they do or do not read, watch, and discuss. He uses technology and drugs, to show the forcefulness of the government in his novel. One of the most important themes that occur in both novels is that of alienation and isolation. Ray Bradbury predicts in his novel Fahrenheit 451, that the future is without literature -- everything from newspapers to novels to the Bible”
I have chosen to write a comparative essay on the two dystopian fictions, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell’s 1984, that we read this year. The two novels are somewhat different yet they have similar messages of the scary course that our society is heading in and our need to not become mindless bystanders that allow it to happen. I find it easy to parallel the writings and I will present the differences and similarities between the two novels as I compare and contrast them.
In both, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell’s 1984, their main characters are very similar in nature and mannerisms. Similarities of Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 and Winston Smith in 1984, are that they both …show more content…
Orwell insists that Winston's fate could happen to anyone, and it is for this reason that Orwell destroys Winston in the end, so that the reader may understand Orwell's warning and see that the society of 1984 never come to pass. Orwell's main goal was to warn of the serious danger totalitarianism poses to society. He goes to great lengths to demonstrate the terrifying degree of power and control a totalitarian regime can acquire hold over the personal rights and freedoms under the all-powerful hand of the government through censorship and ant-intellectualism” (Moustaki).
Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, “sends a very direct message showing readers what can happen if they allow the government to take total control of what they do or do not read, watch, and discuss. He uses technology and drugs, to show the forcefulness of the government in his novel. One of the most important themes that occur in both novels is that of alienation and isolation. Ray Bradbury predicts in his novel Fahrenheit 451, that the future is without literature -- everything from newspapers to novels to the Bible”