Anthem & Farenheit 451 essay quiz

In Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem there are some similarities and differences. The plot of both stories are based in the future, but Ray Bradbury’s and Ayn Rand’s idea of the future in their books are very different. In Fahrenheit 451, all the people are a lot less social, and in Anthem the people are social and interact like normal people do today. In Fahrenheit 451 people have “real names” and are themselves. In Anthem the people have weird names with numbers and everyone doesn’t call themselves “I,” they say always say “we.” Both books have a government that doesn’t want the people to think for themselves so they take away the things that would let everyone to think freely.

I think the endings of Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem are have some similarities. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag overcomes the restrictions of the government and was running away from the government because he killed Beatty. In Anthem, Equality is running from The Council of World Scholars because he escaped from jail. So he goes out to the Uncharted Forest where no one really goes. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag meets a group of old men and he stayed with them. Equality did a similar thing; he met the Golden One in the forest. After Montag meets up with the group he realizes all the things he has been doing and changes his ways. Equality does the same and he starts to say “I” instead of just “we.”