Persuasive Essay On Fahrenheit 451

don’t even begin to think on the current issues. Instead they are filled with “combustible data, chock so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely `brilliant' with information” (29). The people living in the reality of Fahrenheit 451 are nothing more than machines, stranger to each other, as shown by how Montag is described by Clarisse McClellan, “You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that”(11). There are many other examples of how the people in Fahrenheit 451 don’t really interact, as Clarisse puts it, "People don't talk about anything… They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming-pools mostly and say

The war in 1984 is no longer a war to win resources or to defeat the enemy, it is a war to keep the population of the nation under control. The war provides and excuse for the Inner party elites to keep the rest of the population uneducated, unsatisfied and unfulfilled, because the people are being manipulated to believe that there sacrifices at home is what is helping win the war, when in reality the war is just and illusion. Another reason why the war is important to maintain this dystopia is because it allows for the inner party member to have a scapegoat and divert attention of the public away from them, towards another enemy. This can be seen through events such as hate week when Winston had to work more than 90 hours (227), or through the daily Two Minutes Hate(15). By projecting an enemy for the people to realise there anger at the inner party keeps it self-save and can exploit the population beyond reason without suffering any consequences. However this war is used to keep the public safe ideology is not possible in the world of Fahrenheit 451. The war plays a two major roles in the dystopia, it shows how out of touch the people in the world are and