Similarities Between Harrison Bergeron And Fahrenheit 451

What is a dystopia? The definition of a dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad (google definition). Although some people may believe that where we live is a dystopia much like in Fahrenheit 451, in reality, where we live also contains features and characteristics meeting the qualifications of a utopia. We see this happen within government, relationships, school systems, and security people feel. In dystopias such as the society in the novels Fahrenheit 451 and “Harrison bergeron” we see similarities connected to our society starting with government and specifically how it restrains creativity. In Fahrenheit 451, the society specifically suppresses creativity within the children and general

The government is convinced that the books would give citizens wrong ideas that would cause riots, petitions, and possibly wars against the government. “Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Firefighter: Benjamin Franklin” (Fahrenheit 451, page 32). This suppresses creativity because reading takes you to different places all around the world, and it tells stories that other’s creative minds make up. Books are inspiring, and give people innovative ideas and various perspectives. This is exactly what the government wanted to prevent from happening within their citizens. They didn’t want them getting any ideas. As it was once said in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” “It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains”. This meant that the government implanted transmitters into citizens, child and adult, to limit their train of thought. Once they started to be creative or have any ideas, after twenty

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Mildred will go out looking for dogs and people to run over. Also, other drive around without a care in the world, and hit people, other cars. In our society, people are a tad bit more courteous to others. We have speed limits, in order to keep people safe. We have jails, and prisons in order to keep people safe from others with bad intentions or perspectives of the world or society in general. People from our society use alarm systems, or live in gated communities so that they can feel protected and secure in their own homes. When people have basically no rules or regulations, people don’t feel as safe in their own communities, knowing that the rules that the government implement won’t keep people from hurting others at any given moment. The security that people feel in their society under their government relates in a contrary to our