In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's novel 1984, there are very common similarities in both contrast and comparison of themes and I intend to learn from these themes the ... novels are technology, control of information and history, and the dangers of totalitarianism, but at the same time in 1984 there is language as mind control, and in Fahrenheit 451 there is knowledge versus ignorance. In both novels, a very obvious theme comes to mind rather quickly, that being technology. With telescreens visible around the city in which ... fear the true past may be revealed. Bec...

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... memory of his past was only true in his own opinion. "Is it your opinion, Winston, that the past has real existence?" Like a tutor preparing the student for a test, O"Brien quizzes Winston on the history of Oceania and the meaning of subjective reality. He tries to force Winston to believe that two plus two equals five because that is what the ... ...

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