Similarities Between Antigone And Fahrenheit 451

Sophocles’ Antigone and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 both use their stories’ main plotline to tell the social issues that were occuring around the times the books were being written. The main characters of each story defy their social\political norm. In 1953, the year that Fahrenheit 451 was published, people were finally gaining the ability to afford new technologically advanced tools that were coming out. Bradbury began to notice what technology was doing to people, and wrote the story based on his predictions of what the future might look like. In Antigone, Sophocles wrote about a woman, named Antigone, that was determined to bury her brother, Polynices. But, the ability to make that decision was taken away by the King. It is definitely

In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag meets a girl named Clarisse who lives by her moral standards, despite her possibly arrested, or even killed. She changes Montag’s perspective on society’s rules. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”(Bradbury 48) Montag begins to realize just how important books are to people. The government is taking away people’s abilities to read and learn from books, including the bible. “I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He’s a regular peppermint stick now...”(Bradbury 77) Faber addresses the fact that nobody really knows the difference between an average man walking down the street, and Jesus. Nobody has the opportunity to read the bible anymore. The government is taking away the ability to even have religion, which initially deadens the opportunity to have moral values, considering the fact that the majority of moral values come from religion. Without morality, there isn’t much of a difference between you and a thug on the