Fahrenheit 451 And 1984 Comparison Essay

Living in the United States, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like living under a dictatorship. Typically you would picture lack of privacy, no freedom of speech, and genocide. An oppressed group of people. I’ve taken three books: Animal Farm, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451, and analyzed the different ways these authors created their own totalitarian society. In 1984, each and every move was monitored by telescreens. Whether you were eating, sleeping, or taking a shower, you were watched. In order to keep everyone in line, human instincts were very discouraged and morality was turned upside down. The foundation of this society was hatred and there was no attempt to hide it. Winston found himself to be quite uncomfortable with this, he had heard rumors of a society once free. In response to his rebellion, he was taken to room 101, brainwashed, then murdered. Another victim of Big Brother.
In this society, growing your brain is considered taboo, even dangerous. Books were burnt and television was encouraged. People even went as far as to have bugs placed into their ears so that they could listen to their television shows anywhere they went. This society is the scariest in my personal opinion, for the people know that they have no freedoms, but they are not willing to give up their entertainment in order to have freedom. Guy realizes the error in society’s ways when an old lady refused to go out of house, even at the risk of burning to death. Why would someone fight so hard for books? He snatched a book from the fire and read it in the security of his own home. Not even his wife knew of this. Later on, he met up with an old english teacher, who helps him escape when he is caught with a stack of books. Going along the rail road tracks, he comes across a group of people who have memorized literature by heart. The book ends with the possibility that maybe, just maybe, they will be able to start a new and free