Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury: Comparative Analysis

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury where the government send fireman to burn all book or any literature. In Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood a man name Crake is a well-known scientist and creates a pill that genocide the human race except Jimmy who then become Snowman. In this two book shows how knowledge and government can change the human’s evolution. Crake isn’t the protagonist of Oryx and Crake but he’s the protagonist “Jimmy” best friend. Crake was a smart boy in high school but then becomes an insane scientist. He turn his knowledge into a weapon against humanity. Crake states that “the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and its game over forever” (Atwood 223). In the article “Testimony: Acquiring Knowledge from Others” by Jennifer Lackey states that “testimony is said to be capable of only transmitting knowledge from one person to another”. Crake knows how important it’s to past knowledge to the next generation. When a new generation is born but doesn’t inherit any knowledge is like start from zero. All the knowledge acquire over time will be lost.
Guy Montage is the protagonist of the story Fahrenheit 451 and he’s a fireman. Montage at the …show more content…
Montage is talking with Faber and tell him “I’m not thinking. I’m just doing like I’m told, like always”. Faber tell Montage that he’s self-knowledge then Faber says “you retain knowledge even when you’re sleeping, if someone whispers it in your ear” (Bradbury 89). In the article “The Concept of Knowledge Communication and Its Relevance to Management” by Martin J. Eppler he states” Knowledge communication has taken place when an insight, experience or skill has been successfully reconstructed by an individual because of the communicative actions of another.” Montage is getting self-knowledge by taking with