Salem Witch Trials And Fahrenheit 451: A Comparative Analysis

The connection between the Salem Witch Trials and what happens to Bradbury in the Guardian Article is that in both scenarios, these people are being accused of committing crimes of treason because of the way they present themselves, the world chooses to believe that they are bad based on the way they look and present themselves. Society during both of these time periods had the ability to accuse others of horrible acts without any evidence linking the individual to the crime, the world was mostly just a free for all. In the Guardian Article, there is a statement saying, “He was out walking with a writer friend, and ‘a police car pulled up and the policeman got out and asked us ‘What are you doing?’ Bradbury explained that they were out walking. The

The Salem Witch Trials was where women were accused of performing sorcery even though they weren't and were still convicted of the crime. This is parallel to Bradbury’s encounter because the policeman decides to consider walking a “crime” just because he feels he has the power to do so which is just a bad sense of character. The Salem witch trials are also similar to the idea of people who read books in Fahrenheit 451 being bad because they are veering away from what society deems right and society chooses to single them out just because they aren't following their rules. In Fahrenheit 451, the characters within the novel are taken to the incinerator and have their houses burned if they are found with books, anyone can be accused of this crime and without question, the fire department will go burn down their house. This is parallel to the witch trials because the vulnerable people in the society get taken advantage of by the people of power, they are punished for crimes that they never committed and aren't even given a say in