Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Harrison Bergeron

Imagine a perfect society, where people that live in the world benefit from society, a utopia. The author of both Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron explain what a world would be like if we had a perfect world, but also what would dramatically change if we did. Both societies in the books, Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron, have shown that their world's censorship can be the most dangerous thing they can hide. Along with that, technology can have a big effect on how much power the government really has. To start off, in a society like in Fahrenheit 451, citizens would have information kept so they wouldn't rebel. Censorship can have a large effect on the people of an area because knowledge is power, and the more you know, the more you can help, but in a perfect society, destroy. In the first section of the book, Montag finds that they were told by law to "burn English-influenced books"(Bradbury 32) although it seemed fake. But soon he finds that the real reason was "because they had mass, they became …show more content…
In this story, everyone is the same, and to keep it that way, people are equipped with restraints that keep them to look as beautiful, tall, or better than anyone else. Harrison, an abnormality, or at least to the government, was taken away because everyone had to be "equal every which way"(Vonnegut). For everyone who was beyond average, they had a " had a little mental handicap radio" to keep check of people. Harrison's dad, say that "Two years in prison and two thousand dollars fine for every ball"(Vonnegut) would be the punishment because the people of higher power didn't want to let their guard down. Towards the end of the text, Harrison retaliated and when he did, " the Emperor and the Empress were dead"(Vonnegut). To keep check of a society of abnormalities, the government in a perfect society can do many harsh things, even