Linn Galindo
Mr. Gondos
English II MYP
16 March 2016
Word Count: 799 Where Society Crumbles Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels leads Montag from Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 to rebel and challenge the authority of his society. They both show a struggle between being reasonable and being ripped apart from what you believe. In both stories the protagonists face a struggle in a society where things are thought to have to be done a certain way. In Fahrenheit 451, people are living in a censored society where nothing is what is seems. In contrast, in Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver goes to many different societies who seem to have opposite moralities and virtues. The journey starts off when Lemuel Gulliver heads out to the South Seas on a voyage …show more content…
This quote is referring to the society’s tendency to conform. It references that breaking the egg from the smaller end is not the regular way of doing things. The people who had been killed challenged the idea that an egg must be broken a certain way. Like Swift, Montag is also challenging the authority of his society and the idea that stuff has to be done a certain way. You can see Montag starting to rip apart from what he believes when he asks his boss, Beatty, “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?” (Bradbury 34). This quote shows how Montag is starting to ask questions and think for himself. He starts being reasonable and questions why they do certain …show more content…
Although Gulliver’s Travels is a complete different story from Fahrenheit 451, it connects to it because both protagonists are facing a struggle between being reasonable and being ripped apart from what you believe by a society. However, they are both able to surpass their struggle and come out as two completely different people with different perspectives. Their journeys changed them and enlightened them to a whole new way of living and thinking. By challenging authority they not only were able to help themselves as individuals but also others by forcing them to rethink their individuality and why they do stuff a certain
Mr. Gondos
English II MYP
16 March 2016
Word Count: 799 Where Society Crumbles Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels leads Montag from Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 to rebel and challenge the authority of his society. They both show a struggle between being reasonable and being ripped apart from what you believe. In both stories the protagonists face a struggle in a society where things are thought to have to be done a certain way. In Fahrenheit 451, people are living in a censored society where nothing is what is seems. In contrast, in Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver goes to many different societies who seem to have opposite moralities and virtues. The journey starts off when Lemuel Gulliver heads out to the South Seas on a voyage …show more content…
This quote is referring to the society’s tendency to conform. It references that breaking the egg from the smaller end is not the regular way of doing things. The people who had been killed challenged the idea that an egg must be broken a certain way. Like Swift, Montag is also challenging the authority of his society and the idea that stuff has to be done a certain way. You can see Montag starting to rip apart from what he believes when he asks his boss, Beatty, “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?” (Bradbury 34). This quote shows how Montag is starting to ask questions and think for himself. He starts being reasonable and questions why they do certain …show more content…
Although Gulliver’s Travels is a complete different story from Fahrenheit 451, it connects to it because both protagonists are facing a struggle between being reasonable and being ripped apart from what you believe by a society. However, they are both able to surpass their struggle and come out as two completely different people with different perspectives. Their journeys changed them and enlightened them to a whole new way of living and thinking. By challenging authority they not only were able to help themselves as individuals but also others by forcing them to rethink their individuality and why they do stuff a certain