Both Fahrenheit 451 and the Hunger games show aspects of propaganda and how that impacts the lives and thought process of the citizens. In Fahrenheit 451 the residents are encouraged not to read books as they are a waste of time and will provide them with nothing that their TV screens can’t already do. By removing the knowledge and thought process that books can provide society has been successfully dumbed down which in the viewpoint of a government makes the people …show more content…
They force children to kill purely for the entertainment of the wealthy and not many seem to take issue with it. The saying “kill or be killed” fits the situation and human life does not seem as valued. In our society hunting animals provides some with entertainment but it would never be acceptable to seek the same thing using people as the targets but in the hunger games that it what it has come to.
In the Hunger games there is barbed wire and electric fences surrounding each district which means they are confined but at the Capitol people are free to move wherever they would like, there is a strong difference between the lives of the people in the capitol and the less fortunate. They are monitored by peacekeepers and one wrong move could lead to their death.
In Fahrenheit 451 there are no physical boundaries present but a lot of the world they live in is cut off from them. People do not go out and enjoy the nature that surrounds them but instead stay within a city or suburban environment which is where all their technological needs can be provided for them. When Montag escapes the city and his former life he can not believe how beautiful something as simple as a river …show more content…
Anybody has the power to report you so in a sense nobody can fully be trusted making everybody question something that could probably be easily explained.
The Hunger games seems to encourage individuality in the Capitol as people can dress and generally speaking can behave how they want but the districts do not have this privilege. In district 12, where the main character is from, during the reaping it became clear that everybody dressed similar. It is a place where everybody has to work and even with a job and a paycheck it can be challenging to support your family which the Capitol capitalize on by offering a way out in exchange for increasing your chances at the reaping. People seem to generally keep themselves to themselves as they do not want the actions of others to impact their already strained lives.
Both Fahrenheit 451 and the Hunger games are both examples of a dystopian society who share a main character who is going against the societal norm and revolting, sometimes subconsciously, against the world they live