What Are The Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And 1984

Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go (2010), Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451(1952) and George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984), utilize similar stylistic features of science fiction exploring the struggle humanity has against oppression. The authors achieve this by their individual use of irony and satire, to foreshadow upcoming situations that have an effect on main characters. Authors, Bradbury and Orwell convey similar techniques in their approach to deploy oppression and its effect by their use of language features, setting, narrative elements and word choice. Whereas, Romanek explores oppression and humanity by visual imagery, style, film language and techniques. Authors Orwell and Bradbury and director Romanek associate their text with the

Romanek depicts the irony of creating life to ‘die’ with all those ‘lessons’ in Hailsham foreshadowing the true purpose. Romanek conveys irony as clones are originally ‘modelled from trash’ and are recreated to preform good behavior instead of what they were products from in the beginning. Bradbury conveys the irony of heros being villians in this dysopian dimenstion where firemen have the ‘pleasure’ to corrupt knowledge by burning books and the houses they were found. Orwells dysopian satire explores irony with his use of characterization, the hero is an unhealthy and unattractive man with no supernatural abilities instead of the ideal image of a hero. Bradbury also conveys irony through his use of paradox believing that ‘ignorance is strength’ and ‘freedom is slavery’ ironically, contradicting each other. The authors use language features, imagery and tone to convey oppression’s impact on humanity

Orwell uses an omniscient third person narration and simile, causing imagery to be powerful: ‘They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies.’ The author uses visual simile through the use of ‘like a horse’ to explain the movement of several individuals which could imply that they are nervous. Third person is conveyed through the use of ‘they’, implying that there is a group of individuals in a particular area involved in the situation. Orwell uses the symbolism of the glass paperweight to convey the lost identity of Winston, symbolically when Winston is arrested the paperweight shatters implying his failure with reconnecting with the past, the truth and the purpose to his identity. Bradbury conveys third person throughout his text but limits it to Guy Montag as the audience is in his thoughts. He expresses an apocalyptic tone of occurring events expressing that ‘we burned’ books along with a ‘women’, the use of the verb ‘burned’ and the plural ‘women’ impacts imagery has it is a distraught action. Bradbury conveys symbolism through the power of books as it represents knowledge and judgement which gives power to individuality. In contrast, Romanek conveys filmic techniques allowing a visual outlook on the science fiction genre and