Control In Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451
Good morning board of studies representative today I’ll be talking about control in a society on the text Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and the short film Animal Farm by George Orwell. Control is the power to influence or direct people’s behaviour or the course of events. This is shown really well in Fahrenheit 451 through their use of the firemen and the mechanical hound. Fahrenheit 451 is based around the main character Guy Montag a twenty year old firemen and is set in a twenty fourth century all though it was written in the mid-1900s. It is set in a dystopian world where people race their cars as a way of getting rid of stress and houses with large tv screens which is used for entertainment and spreading government propaganda.

The state authorised that all books must burn. When books and new ideas are available to people it causes disputes and unhappiness. So to fix the issue all books are forbidden and without ideas everyone conforms which should make everyone happy but as the reader progresses in the book they find that it is not the case. When Montag meets his teenage neighbour Clarisse McClellan he begins to question his happiness. She questions him not only on his personal happiness but also about his job as a fireman and how he know very little truth about history. She also points out how much the government has changed what they see as their history. For example Montag didn’t know that firemen actually used to fight real fires. It also becomes apparent that others are also unhappy and this is shown when Montag comes home to find his wife Millie unconscious from what it seems to be attempted suicide. She is found on the bed and has overdosed on sleeping pills and tranquilizers which then leads to two machine-like technicians who bring machines to pump her stomach and provide a

Jones and the pigs. At the start of the film the farm is shown as an unfair and unhappy place and that’s why the animals decide to have a meeting in the barn. During the meeting old major discussed the “miserable, laborious and short” lives of his fellow animals. When Mr. Jones is running the farm the animals are worked as slaves and get just enough food to keep breath in their bodies and killed mercilessly when they are not useful anymore. Old Major relates a dream that he had the previous night, of a world in which animals live without the cruelty of men and they are free, happy, well fed, and treated with dignity. He urges the animals to do everything they can to make this dream a reality and encourages them to overthrow the humans who claim to own them. The animals can succeed in their rebellion only if they first achieve a “perfect comradeship” of all of the animals against the humans, and if they resist the false idea spread by humans that animals and humans share common interests. Major then provides a code that will allow the animals to determine who their comrades are. Creatures that walk on two legs are enemies, those with four legs or with wings are allies. He reminds the animals that the ways of man are completely corrupt. Once the humans have been defeated, the animals must never adopt any of their habits, they must not live in a house, sleep in a bed, wear