The Futuristic Ideas of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury and George Orwell share a common focus in their books about the future of society in years to come. Each of their novels depicts the future as non-individualistic, totalitarian and restricts our freedoms. The author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury puts his main character in a world where he must destroy books in order to keep the people from having diverse opinions when reading these materials. Orwell’s 1984 …showed first 75 words of 618 total…

…showed last 75 words of 618 total…characters they are different because of the way they represent the “underground” organizations. Based on the likenesses and differences of the main characters of each of these books, one can get an overall idea of how they are they alike, and how they are different. They both have a futuristic idea of a totalitarian government, but what is most important is that they are trying to get rid of the communication part of society; words!