Examples Of Speciality In Fahrenheit 451

Being Special or Being Normal
When a person figures out that the ideal word he or she lives in is actually a prison, he or she will do everything to break out, even though there are a plenty of obstacles one has to overcome. Such as Montag, the protagonist of the Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. He is a fireman whose job is to burn books. Besides, he is pleased to do it until he meets Classier, who is a 17 year-old girl. The conservations with Classier stimulates him to look the deeper aspects of the community. Eventually, he discovers the real reasons of his job’s existence, he decides to resist it by breaking rules. Finally, he ends up with being wanted by government and joining a group of intellectuals and Offred, the protagonist of the

In Fahrenheit 451, everything that can open people’s thoughts are prevented by the government to restrict people. The government claims that books have nothing valuable, so books should be burned; the government claims that citizens only need to hear certain news, so media should be limited; the government claims that intellectuals are meaningless, so they should be eliminated. In fact, it deprived of people’s fundamental human rights to exchange information and learning. Along with the time passes, civilian will lose the independent thoughts and turn into dull due to lack of knowledges. They be used to live in such social condition that the government intentionally creates for them. Finally, they will become dolls of the government, and obey it without any question. Compared to the handmaid’s tale, only the high-ups deserve privilege. Like the Commanders, they enjoy services from lower-class people and hold the powers of life and death over many people, also they have access to numerous forbidden things. The head of Gilead gives high-ranking officers the authorities for the purpose of imprisoning them and let them indulge it unconsciously for the sake of controlling. On the contrary, humble people are like at the bottom of the food chains of Gilead, they serve for elites to live. Furthermore, some means are taking in the community of both novels for managing the country. In Fahrenheit 451, the government chooses to supervise the citizens. It creates the mechanical hound, which “leaping out like a moth in the raw light, finding, holding its victim, inserting the needle and going back to its kennel” (Bradbury 55). The hounds can be everywhere, and people are impossible to guard against it. As the only beneficiary, the government would kill two birds with one stone. The appearance of the hounds not only speeds up the process of eliminating government threats but also warms the rest