Similarities Between Harrison Bergeron And Fahrenheit 451

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Since I began high school, language arts has been my most difficult class. It doesn’t quite click with me like math and science do, yet I continue to sign up for the advanced classes to challenge myself. Each assignment can have a huge impact on one’s grade since there aren’t many, and it only added to the stress of this particular essay missing the first couple days we had to work on it. Oddly, we were told to wait before writing the introduction; something I was okay with because introductions and conclusions cause me more apprehension than any other aspect of an essay. We were then told that we were to all write a specific type of introduction. As my classmates adjusted their plans to fit the system, I immediately thought that there was …show more content…

The main distinguishment between them is while citizens were made to be equal by the government in “Harrison Bergeron,” the society as a whole simply lost interest in knowledge and individuality in Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451, rapid technological progress leads to a loss of emotion among the citizens; Faber describes what people have lost by saying “it’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that were once in books” (Bradbury ). The people still have the ability to portray all of that depth and meaning through things like the parlor walls, but people choose not to and decide that that is too much work. However, in “Harrison Bergeron,” the society had decided that in order for people to be equal it had to be forced through government regulations. Vonnegut writes, “they were equal in every which way … all this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution” (Vonnegut 1). The effect of all the citizens being “equal” was very much the same as in Fahrenheit 451, but the characters in “Harrison Bergeron” are constantly physically being kept from being individuals or doubting their government’s