Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Equilibrium

Through various stylistic elements and subtle commentary, both Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury and Equilibrium, directed by Kurt Wimmer identify the causes and effects of social disintegration in a dystopian society. Resembling both similarities and differences through character motive, Societal dystopia, and overall memorandum.

In both pieces of work, the protagonists are adjacent to the higher power government resulting in a rebellion for greater good. On the other hand, both characters were originally alongside the dystopian movement. Guy Montag, an indifferent firefighter, burned books in order to extinguish the artistic views and opinions of citizens. John Preston, a ruthless assassin, hunts down those who dare to sense and feel

The government uses technology like a bloodthirsty hound or even a poison to prevent the sensation of touch and feeling. They believed that they were maintaining a perfect society by monitoring the population and censoring each person for contraband. In both pieces, many people were eliminated for possessing either books or revealing emotion and sense. Not only were the consequences alike, but the same inferno was used to burn the contraband or even the perpetrator. Leaders were trying to robotize the society, “ We must be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal “ ( Bradbury, 28 ). However, each society is depicted as a hell on earth through the use of lighting and imagination. A dim, cold, brute world describes the setting for both Fahrenheit 451, and Equilibrium. As a result of this nightmarish world, we see that many people would rather kill themselves than continue to live in this horror. One could not help from noticing that in both plots, there is a vast majority of men to women. For every woman in each story was killed by the power of the government and for the association to the rebellion. These are worlds where a being has less creativity or ingenuity than a mouse or spider. For without these qualities, a man is dead, both inside and