François Duvalier

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…

Burning the Blind: Silent Screams In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) many different literary elements were used in his writing to express his overall message for the book. Bradbury illustrates a futuristic community in which everybody is told what to do. Firefighters, which include Montag, are forced to burn every book in sight by the government. Montag had a very unusual encounter with a young girl who opened his eyes to the world in front of him. Rebelling against the government,…

There are many different ways a literary element creates the meaning of the text. In this case it is in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this book, the main character, Guy Montag suffers through many conflicts in his dystopian society. Conflict is a big literary element that creates the meaning of the text. In the first section of this novel Montag meets a peculiar neighbor. Her name is Clarisse McLean. She is the one who introduces him to the past. Because of this he starts to…

As author George Saunders said in “Thank You, Esther Forbes” on page 62, “By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.” In this simple, yet elegant sentence I would elaborate its meaning as, The more vocabulary you have at your disposal the more vividly you can describe the world around you. Let me give you an example; If you and a 5th grader see an apple on a chair, the one with the more broad vocabulary would…

Human beings are naturally curious. We are made to create and solve problems. In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist; Guy Montag, lives in a dystopic society where firemen burn every piece of evidence of the past which include books, houses, and in rare cases people. Montag is a fireman, a feared member in the government, who finds life boring and unpleasant not knowing what’s inside the books he burns. The government educates how citizens act by tv parlors throughout each house…

“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow…

Changing mindsets, breaking boundaries and burning one of the most powerful things in the world flood Guy Montag’s life. These are only three adaptations that happen during the time. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, the most important theme is change. Currently, books are one of the biggest learning utensils used in almost every subject. These textbooks and novels are packed with information to give us knowledge and help us understand subjects. When we read stories, we learn how to…

Things have taken a dark turn since you went away. You have opened my eyes to see what atrocities the firemen let transpire. Just recently, we let a woman burn alive in her house. (hsdjfd) She was too attached to her books to let them go, so she too went up in flames alongside her treasures. Before meeting you I never would have understood this passion to take your own life in the name of books, though you have set a fire of curiosity within me. I sometimes even find myself speaking like you,…

Fahrenheit 451 & The 5th Wave Fahrenheit 451 and The 5th Wave, are two very good, very different dystopias. They both have their heartbreaks, their fights, their moments, but they cannot be called the same. But instead of distancing them with their differences, how about we compare and contrast these two dystopian novels. Fahrenheit 451 is a society that is still functioning at the time of the book, and firemen are a large part of the story. The twist in the story is that the firemen…

There are many auteurists in our modern time now that have created marvelous film, like Gasper Noe, and Michael Haneke. These filmmakers have demonstrated how critically beautiful a film can be based on capturing a filmmaker style. It creates this enjoyment of searching for a theme an auteuist is so happy to leave. When it first began and till this day some critics are not to fond of it, due to the lack of widening a sense of theme in a film. When put into international context film directors…