Anthem and Fahrenheit 451 comparative essay

In both Anthem and Fahrenheit 451 the society the characters live in is government controlled and they limit certain things in the lives of the citizens. Both of the authors of these books are trying to warn today’s societies about the dangers of the different faults they each exhibit and how today’s societies are starting to reflect the warnings of the books. Both Anthem and Fahrenheit 451 warn today’s societies about when government has overbearing control and holds knowledge from its citizens using fear and other means it causes rebellion and dependence within societies. In Anthem the government has control over everything in the citizens lives starting from when the people are born through every year they live until they die. They learn what their taught and nothing more. They do what they are told and follow the laws that the society is based upon. The citizens think what the government has planted into their heads from when they were born. Using repetition and having complete control over every surrounding in the people’s lives the government can easily brainwash the citizens and can form them into anything they wants the people to be. In this novel, the society takes on an extreme version of government control. Compared to Fahrenheit 451 where the government control is still present but uses different tactics to get the same controlled and brainwashed results as the government in Anthem. In Fahrenheit 451 the citizens learn just what they are taught and nothing more, as it is in Anthem. Using teachings that merely scratching the surface on topics and using teaching methods so that the students never learning how to think for themselves or analyze anything, for that would lead to free thinkers within the society which is exactly what the governments in both books are trying to avoid. In Fahrenheit 451 they also withhold books and the knowledge of what is in them, making the books illegal and using fear of consequences to keep people away from