The Truman Show In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

In the book Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury uses the canvas of a dystopian futuristic society and a world without literature. Bradbury uses the citizens of Fahrenheit 451 as a medium to express his inner fears about the problems associated with building a dependency on technology. The Truman Show is a film directed by Peter Weir which was also considered prophetic for its time due to its commentary on reality television. The film lays out how important one person can be to the public. The society of the Truman Show is an artificial one, as all the citizens are actors on a television show .Although the main character does not know everyone he lives with are part of a show. Truman is the only person not part of the show it is his real

In Fahrenheit 451 they are devaluing of human life in the society with the culprit being the society is shared obsession with technology. To provide you with background knowledge of the book, a Parlor Wall was a big TV in their society, and the character already has 3 walls full of walls. Mildred is an example of a person in the society that is overly obsessed with technology like the parlor walls. Montag asks his wife Mildred “Do the parlor walls love you?” Mildred admits they do and in return, she loves them - a family of imaginary people. The parlor walls make an impact on human interaction by depriving people from interacting in a real life, keeping them ignorant to human love and interaction. Truman’s life in ambushed with recorders, cameras, and other devices that watch him throughout his entire life. (In the same way as Mildred, people are glued to their televisions in the “real world” in The Truman Show. People are obsessed with every aspect of his life, instead of performing their responsibilities at work. You can witness two cops watching the show instead of working throughout the movie. Truman is broadcast over the whole society for people to watch for entertainment. People know every aspect of his life, without ever having met

Each story gives a plethora of examples of censorship, propaganda, and repression. Books are a forbidden thing that must not be read in F451’s society. By burning books the government is destroying information that takes a toll on people like Montag, as well as the whole society. Ray Bradbury was quoted saying that “Burning books is akin to burning people.” If you destroy a book, you are erasing that person’s legacy or ideas. You are also preventing the world from considering different points of view than what is given to them by the government (propaganda). The travel agent prevents the main character Truman from exploring the world. By stating, “The world has already been explored.” In The Truman Show character of Christof is responsible for withholding/suppressing information about the ‘real’ world from Truman. This character pleads with Truman as he attempts to leave “set” that the world he lives in is an ideal world for Truman, and that the real world is filled with just as many lies and pain. Much like the character Christof, in Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty believes that book contain lies and misery. “We must all be alike. Not everyone, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man is an image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Tale the shot from the