In the world of Fahrenheit 451 they don't give you enough time to think but in the world of 1984 it is illegal. Fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury and 1984 by george orwell both are dictatorships that censor the media. 1984 is a harder to overthrow dictatorship in 1984: the government gives no power to people, has more severe punishment and does not give anybody time to think. In 1984 the government did not give enough power to the people to change anything shown in the quotation: “The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.'' In Fahrenheit 451 they do a similar thing in the quotation:“If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood.”. In Fahrenheit 451 they give you nothing