Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Gattaca

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An unfair and unjust society of conformity is bound to have rebels and individuals who go against the standards of a Dystopian society. The idea of rebellion is represented and portrayed in the dystopian science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1955) and the film Gattaca by Andrew Niccol (1999). Both stories involve the antagonistic treatment of individuals by the government and their conformist society. The novel portrays rebellion through books, conformists avoid books and individuals hide and store books. This idea is explored when Montag begins to question his dystopian society when he sees an old woman die by the side of her books. Bradbury uses the literary device of Truncated Sentence is used when Montag states “There