In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we are put into a world of the future where books are abolished, technology is in its heyday, and face to face interaction is rare. This story is told to us through the eyes of Guy Montag, who is a fireman that creates fires rather than douse them. The author highlights that too much control from a higher authority can be devastating to a society.
In the beginning, Montag is a fire hungry man who takes great pleasure in watching the books burn. Like most people in his society, Guy Montag has lived a very boring life in the state of ignorance. In the many years that Montag has worked as a fireman for the government he never once questioned or thought about why books are banned. He just accepts burning books as his job and does
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When Joseph Stalin was in control of the Soviet, he had a major role in the flow of ideas that the Russians had. ¨The soviet Union implemented mass destruction of pre-revolutionary and foreign books and journals from libraries.¨ This is almost exactly what happens in 451. In Fahrenheit, there are firemen whose job it is to burn all books, and anything that goes against the conformity. Another similarity is what happened to the people who disobeyed the law. In 451, the people who go against the government are alienated from their community and forced to live far away from everything. In the Soviet union, the life for the exiles was much more dangerous. In the time Stalin was ruling, he killed upwards of 20 million writers, press members, and other rule breakers. If the people weren't killed then they would be exiled into work camps, ¨During the 1930s Stalin collectivized all private farms in the Soviet Union, and in the process sent over 1 million into exiles.¨ In both situations, the government is exiling people if they do something that goes against the