A Most Dangerous Game And Fahrenheit 451 Comparison

Intertextuality is the interrelation between a newer work and an older work. These works are almost always pieces of literature. One phenomenal piece of literature I had the privilege of reading was a short story called A Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell. In this story, a legendary hunter named Bob Rainsford becomes stranded on a remote island and is rescued by a seemingly welcoming hunter named Count Zaroff, who asks Bob to stay the night with him in his castle-like home on the island. Not thinking twice, Bob graciously accepts the invitation. Zaroff eventually explains to Bob that he has two options. The first is to be killed by one of Zaroff’s many goons. The other is to play a game of cat and mouse on the island and potentially

Both of these story have a human-hunter as the antagonist. Even though in the Predator the hunter is an alien, and doesn’t give his victims an option on how they want to die, the overarching storylines are very similar. An additional example of intertextuality is the the similarities between the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, and the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. Fahrenheit 451 is set in a dystopian world where human misery and oppression are what the world is founded on. The protagonist is a fireman named Guy Montag. In this day and age, firemen are charged with starting fires to burn books that are seen as a threat to society, instead of putting fires out. On his walk home from work, Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan. After this encounter, he starts to doubt his way of life because of the deep questions she asked him. When his firemen squad gets called to burn a house down for harboring illegal books, the house owner refuses to leave her flame ridden home and dies alongside her books. While starting the fire, Guy steals a book from the woman’s stash. Montag then meets Faber, a