Intertextuality And Similarities Between 1984 And Fahrenheit 451

The idea that all stories are connected is intertextuality. One piece of literature feeds off another. There is really only one story and ideas are just borrowed to make more stories. Every story can be linked to another story. This is intertextuality, defined by Foster as "dialogue between old texts and new" (Foster 39). He believes that there is only one big story and every other story is related to that one. In a way, all of the literature in the world is connected. I too believe that this is true and can help a person better understand what they are reading. One example of intertextuality is between 1984 by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, where both cities are placed into the future from their time period. The