Minority Report And Fahrenheit 451 Comparison

A popular sub-genre commonly mentioned when one thinks of a dystopia is the ever so terrifying rogue technological future society that we one day might become. What is it that makes this idea so popular and so scary? It is the fear hidden within the unknown, the question of, what if we become too advanced. A trend can be seen within this genre, technology is created and it becomes so powerful that the citizens that use it become so obsessed that they become blind to what’s around them. Two prime examples of this are Minority Report and Fahrenheit 451, they share many similarities within the plot line as well as the characters and perhaps even the moral lessons that run at the heart of the stories. The characters that drive the two stories

Something that pushes the entire plot along within the two stories is the protagonist’s craving to know about the past. When Anderton begins to get curious about past murders and missing data to a point where he feels the need to investigate, an employee below him warns him by telling him, “Careful, Chief...you dig up the past, all you get is dirty.” This gives across a feeling of foreshadow, a sort of eerie warning that lets you know that this is the calm before the storm. The same thing happens with Montag in Fahrenheit when he becomes curious about books and the origins in fireman, the fire chief that he works under tells him, “At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh to scratch that itch, eh?”(Bradbury 59). Beatty uses it as a form of warning, a sort of glimpse into the future that things won’t end well if he doesn’t readjust his priorities. Even after these warning the two men get a feeling that something isn’t right, that they must push on to uncover what others don’t care about. Their determination can be summarized with the words, “We don’t choose the things we believe in; they choose us.” Montag and Anderton can’t help but risk their lives and their jobs to uncover the truth because they know it’s what’s