The hard underlying truths about humanity that emerge from these two dystopian societies are control and overreliance on technology. In Fahrenheit 451, the people in the novel use technology for almost everything. One example is Mildred always talking to the tv walls and how she seems to fade away from society. Another example is when Clarisse said people talked about the same things with no new information. The people in Fahrenheit 451 rely on technology so much that they seem to forget their sense of self a lot. Knowledge, as well as people's sense of self, are crucial aspects of their identity which is practically nonexistent in the society of Fahrenheit 451. Due to the burning of books many humans lost their sense of identity as they had