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Comparing Fahrenheit 451 And Anthem By Ayn Rand

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According to the website dictionary.com a Dystopia can be defined as, “a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” (Random House). Throughout the world there are thousands upon thousands of dystopian novels. People all around the world are attracted to these types of novels, especially modern day teenagers. These teens are attracted to them because they can easily relate to the novel itself and the characters in the novel. Teens can relate to these books easily because they often feel oppressed and overcrowded. People in general also have great feeling for dystopian novels not just teenagers, but mostly teenagers in this case. Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury and Anthem by: Ayn Rand are two dystopian novels that modern day teenagers can relate to. To start things off with Anthem by: Ayn Rand is a good example of a dystopian novel. An excerpt from Anthem that shows how …show more content…

A quote showing that Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel is, “They had this machine.” (Bradbury14) One way that Fahrenheit 451 is dystopian is that they are told what to do and how to do it. This is why main character Guy Montag rebels against the fire department. Modern day teenagers relate to this very well because they hate being told what to do, in turn making the teenagers also want to be rebellious. Another way teenagers can relate to Fahrenheit 451 is because some people feel something is very wrong with the world that they live in, almost like they are living in a virtual reality which they are. The ones who feel something is wrong are usually the ones who disobey the rules and rebel. Some teenagers are like Guy Montag, in Fahrenheit 451 because they want to rebel and disobey the status quo. Clearly, modern day teenagers can relate to Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury, along with Anthem by: Ayn Rand, because they want to be rebellious and

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In the books Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem, by Ray Bradbury and Ayn Rand, the societies displayed are very different from modern day societies. In Anthem the main character, Equality 7-2521, is a young man who lives in a society where there is absolutely no individuality personality wise and it is basically considered a sin to be different than others. In Fahrenheit 451 the main character, Guy Montag, lives in a society where no one thinks independently, it is illegal to read, and no one really cares about anything. Both societies restrict free thinking, but both do it in ways different than the other. In both books the main characters meet someone who changes their lives for the better.

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Writers use dystopian literature to get the reader to avoid terrible events that could occur in the future. In Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem, and in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, both novels share rebellious protagonists in order to show the corruption of society by control and education. Montag and Equality both rebel by taking items they should not have and then they both escape society. Their methods of rebelling were the beginning of a new age for their society.

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Dystopian Complications- Anthem VS. The Maze Runner “ And if you 're not needed by you brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies…”(Rand, 1.20) Dystopian literature is a type of genre that is dark and like everything has just lost all common sense. Teens are going into the dystopian fandom because it 's like the music the listen too. “Against the rules.

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In the real world that we live in, curiosity and changing for the better is a natural and good cause for citizens. In the dystopian novels of “Fahrenheit 451” and “Anthem” curiosity and change is some of the greatest of transgressions in the books society and only some are willing to do. Through the dystopian characteristics of Independent thought and freedoms restricted and citizens conform to uniform expectations, both Fahrenheit 451 and anthem present the similar theme that in a dystopian society, curiosity and change leads to the freedom that one hopes for. The authors of Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem use many dystopian characteristics to convey the theme that curiosity and change leads to the freedoms one might hope for, but one of the

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Fahrenheit 451 has an astonishingly accurate future depiction of a society in which everyone is too distracted by technology, so they ignore most of the world around them. The community members are not aware of nature or other human beings, and they never take time to actually think deeply about life and ideas in general. Many high school and middle school teach this book in curriculums nationwide, because the addiction to technology and hatred of books portrayed in the book is beginning to be prevalent in our society. This book also glorifies individuality by admiring a girl who is different from everyone else. In the past, many parents have decided to challenge this book due to the violence, the religious discrimination, the foul language, and the references to drinking and smoking.

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“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice” said by Adlai E. Stevenson. Communist governments oppress and limit basic rights of their people. In cuba for instance, Cuban law limits freedom of expression, association, and has “tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups, and individual believers.” These controlling communist nations are very similar to the world's found within the works of, Anthem by Ayn Rand, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Logans Run directed by Michael Anderson. Similarly these world, have oppressed individual with restricted freedoms.

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The novel Fahrenheit 451 and the movie Equilibrium both fell under the genre of a ‘dystopian’, meaning they may have some similarities, additionally, they may also had some differences between them as well. Some similarities of these two stories can be in the traditional characteristics of a dystopia, the characteristics of the protagonist, a number of different dystopian controls on the society’s citizens, and the characteristics of the dystopia itself. Therefore, the question at hand is how these two dystopian stories are similar or differ in these categories. One of the most crucial things to discuss when it comes to a dystopian story, is the actual characteristics of the dystopia itself. Fahrenheit 451 contains many of the classic characteristics of a dystopia.

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Both The Hunger Games and Fahrenheit 451 are examples of stories using dystopia. In both, many characteristics of dystopian societies are used. These common characteristics include the fact that citizens live in a dehumanized state, the society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world, and the citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. The first dystopian characteristic that The Hunger Games and Fahrenheit 451 have in common is that the citizens live in a dehumanized state.

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On the part of its entire premise is censorship and how it dehumanizes people and we should think for ourselves. Fahrenheit 451 follows a man named Guy Montage, Guy is a firefighter, and this kinda firefighter is very different from the normal fireman. Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a dystopian future where houses are flameproof, so firefighters do not put out fires, they make them. Over the course of time, it seems that the world has decided that being your own person is not worth it. That having a personality is not worth it, that idealism is not worth it.

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The society in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows examples of a dystopia. One way Fahrenheit 451 exemplifies a dystopia is how citizens live in a dehumanized state. In the book, a man named Guy Montag lives his life in a dreary society with his wife, Mildred, burning books for a living because books are against the law to have and to read. When Montag tries to convince Mildred that there are important things in books, Mildred responds with, “‘Now,’ said Mildred, ‘My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh!

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Loss of critical thinking in Fahrenheit 451 The dictionary defines dystopia as an “imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.” Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 exemplifies dystopian writing at its finest. The loss of critical thinking reoccurs in this novel as a theme.

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When you go to a bookstore and look into the Teen/Young Readers section, you’ve probably seen a novel about a dystopian society. This is a very popular genre today, and ranging from Marie Lu’s Legend to Neal Shusterman’s Unwind, there are hundreds of books about less-than perfect societies. Of course, dystopian novels aren’t just written in modern times. Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, was written in 1953 and features a society in which books are illegal. Ironic, right?

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Dystopian societies found in literature typically express human tendency to have a fear of the future consequently the fear of the unknown. Over the years dystopian writers have written stories about world governments becoming power hungry and creating conformist societies that take away the liberties of being a freethinking human. In post apocalyptic worlds the human race tends to lose it’s belief in humanity, in creativity, and in freedom. Dystopian societies are depicted as environments filled with conformity, hierarchy, and incentives. The film adaptation of Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games and Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World are prime examples of dystopian societies dominated by capitalist exploitation.

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Anastasia lovlin Mrs.scaniffe Humanities P4 EA 2.1 Lauren DeStefano once said, “Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society – a future world that could plausibly happen.” The majority of the time, you would never think to compare our society to any dystopian novel. But, in reality, the dystopian society in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has many similar characteristics to our own society. One similarity between our society and the society in Fahrenheit 451 is that sometime in our near future; with all the technical advancements we have, the majority of our jobs will be run by machines. In the novel, Montag stated, “School is shortened, discipline relaxed,

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Dystopian novels are works of fiction written that depict a perfect society. Naturally, most of dystopian literature is about societies with an altered piece of society that the author deems insufficient in their reality. Margaret Atwood wrote a futuristic dystopian novel, ‘The Handmaids Tale’ about a society named Gilead. Atwood creates a dystopia in which sexuality is governmentally regulated. Due to a cultural shift of values, the Republic of Gilead had one goal: to control procreation to repopulate the earth.

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