In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's novel 1984, there are very common similarities in both contrast and comparison of themes and I intend to learn from these themes the effects of governments the control its people and how every society has flaws and how they can be changed, and the themes that are displayed in both novels are technology, control of information and history, and the dangers of totalitarianism, but at the same time in 1984 there is language as mind control, and in Fahrenheit 451 there is knowledge versus ignorance. In both novels, a very obvio...

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Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, a science fiction novel, in 1953. The title F451 refers to the temperature at which books will begin to burn. This is a book that takes place in futuristic America during the 21st century. No particular year is given, however, 2 atomic wars have already been fou...

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" Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a well-known science fiction novel that successfully influences readers; make us to rethink about the importance of books and how grateful we have the freedom to read nowadays. ... The film expresses the themes well, shows the ideas of negative dystopian society and censorship. ... I enjoyed both two version of the story, and both of them do a great job at expressing the theme and thesis....

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In part one of Fahrenheit 451 the Hearth and the salamander we are introduced to Guy Montag a firefighter doing his duty burning houses that have book in them. ... Fahrenheit 451 is an outstanding book and has a lot of foreshowing of what could happen to out century if technology keeps advancing and we stop reading books, they could become a crime later on! ...

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Some of these themes include "offensive language, sexually explicit scenes, homosexuality, violence, religious viewpoint, and drugs" (Crum). While some of these themes truly cry, "obscene!...

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