Similarities Between Frankenstein And Fahrenheit 451

In the wild, there are many organisms that have beauty but can also be dangerous. A venus fly trap is an example of this; it is pretty but can kill. The plant lures its victim in with its scent. Once an insect lands on the plant and touches one of its censors, it is just a matter of time before it shuts close, trapping the victim. This concept also exists in society; knowledge may seem alluring but triggered and used incorrectly it can be very dangerous. In Fahrenheit 451 and Frankenstein, there is this central idea of knowledge. On the one hand, it can bring power and authority; however, on the other hand, it can be destructive and something people should be afraid of. Both Frankenstein and Fahrenheit 451 demonstrate that knowledge is powerful

He starts the book off in his regular everyday boring life. He is sick of nothingness. He says, “Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read" (Bradbury 34). He meets a girl named Clairesse, and she shows him what a conversation could look like, interesting. Having been in conversation with this girl he learns that there is something missing in his own life. All her life she notices and appreciates the little things. This is what she taught Montag, but others did not see her in the same way he did. “She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl’s better off dead” (Bradbury 74). Here Beatty just sees her as strange and abnormal and says how she is better off dead. They treated books the same. They wanted to get rid of it all. Montag takes this all into account and starts to rethink his life choices. Then one day as he was doing his job, a woman refused to get out of their house to get rid of her books and ended up dying,“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a

Victor was sorely mistaken when he originally thought that he was doing a great service by making a new creation, “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excel[lent natures would owe their being to me” (Shelly 42). He grows to learn that not only does he not like his creation, his creation grows to hate him as well. In the book, Wilson's character demonstrates an innocent version of Victor, while the monster demonstrates a mature version, “He may represent the scientist's innocent stage, while the monster is the mature version, representative of Frankenstein's freakish desire. After all, it is not Frankenstein's desire for knowledge that perverts him, it is his desire for power”(Brackett). This desire for power combined with his intellectual skills created a responsibility. Victor wanted to put use of the skills that he has, “Though increased knowledge of the world and new possibilities alone cannot do harm, they have the potential to do serious damage through their application into technology–there’s a fine line between achieving technological breakthroughs and playing god” (Bontrager). The execution of his skills is where he went wrong. If he had done a different project with the same base knowledge, then he would not be playing god. He could have been happy and successful but instead he