Comparing Partials And Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Dan Wells’ Partials and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 have many similarities in their life styles and governments. They both are written in a dystopian society in the future. A dystopia is a society where everything is bad unlike an utopia where everything is good. In dystopias there are usually a larger figure that rules the society. Some of the common figures are controlling governments and dictators. The media is sometimes censored by the government and propaganda controls the thoughts of the people. Generally people do not like their lives in a dystopia and want to change the way of life. In most dystopian societies there are people who are different than everyone else. The ruling figure can have the person “disappear” because they are

Individualism is when an individual is different than everyone else in their actions, thoughts, and opinions. The government can punish those who act differently than how the rest of the populace acts. They can give the person a trial or secretly deal with the problem. This involves the disappearing aspect of a dystopian society. Clarisse is a character in Fahrenheit 451 and she is different than everyone else. She does not do what the other kids do after school, which is beating kids up and killing them, she notices the little things around her, like the flowers, and tries to get Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451, to think like her instead of the old boring way the rest of society thinks. One day Clarisse disappears and Montag does not know what happened to her. It is hinted that the government made Clarisse disappear because she is different than everyone else. Everyone is expected to watch television all day and not think. Clarisse thought and did not watch television all the time like everyone else. This would rouse suspicion to the society because they have lived their lives watching television and not thinking. This forces the government's hand thus leading to Clarisse’s