V For Vendetta And Fahrenheit 451 Comparison

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Dystopia is defined as “an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one”. Both Fahrenheit 451 and V for Vendetta contain a dystopian society and depict what it would be like to live in a world of chaos. The book and the movie both do a spectacular job at creating an image of a terrible future, but each contains their set of similarities and differences. To begin with, Fahrenheit 451 and V for Vendetta each has a character, a protagonist to be exact, that sees the world differently than everyone else does. In Fahrenheit 451, the main character's neighbor Clarisse was seen as the protagonist because she thought differently and did things that were seen as absurd. “I’m anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking about things like this” (29). In the movie V for …show more content…
Banning of books was what caused the firemen to start fires and dogs to become robotic killing machines in Fahrenheit 451. For V for Vendetta, it was human testing and the government’s unethical thinking that caused their society to turn out that way. Even though the reasons are different, both societies are still considered dystopias.
In conclusion, the societies depicted in Fahrenheit 451 and V for Vendetta are one in the same. Despite the fact that the reasoning behind the chaos and the motives of the protagonists are different, the two are comparable and the societies are almost the same. The way the government controls their citizens and brainwashes them are identical in both Fahrenheit 451 and V for Vendetta. There may be a few more traits that set them aside from each other but all in all, the two portray very similar societies and make you question whether the society we live in today will be the