Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Modern Society

How would you feel if you didn’t have control over your own life? In some societies, people have no control over themselves, and also in some of these societies, there are a lot of advanced techs that make their society different from ours. However, there are similarities between these societies such as inequalities. Both books Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Legend by Marie Lu it is a dystopian society with large amounts of control and high technology which are different from modern society however there are similarities like inequalities. In some dystopian societies people are controlled and don’t have power in their own lives and are even prevented from learning. In the book Fahrenheit 451, there is so much control over people which

bridge: In the book Legend it is a lot higher tech society than modern-day society. An example of this is “Like all guns, it has precision, guided by magnets and electric currents, and can accurately shoot a target three blocks away” (Pg 5.) This is pretty high-tech compared to modern-day society because we have guns but not all this precision electric stuff making modern-day society different. To conclude Legend’s society is a lot more high-tech than modern-day society. In most societies including modern-day society, there are a lot of inequalities for multiple foolish reasons. Even though Fahrenheit 451 and modern-day society are very different from each other there are still some similarities. For instance, in modern-day society there are inequalities because of race, gender, and wealth which is similar to Fahrenheit 451 “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman” (Martin Luther King Jr.) This tells us that people are not acting like they should showing that modern-day society is dystopian just like Fahrenheit 451. To sum up, Modern day society has a lot of differences but also has similarities to dystopian