Sunday, August 22, 2010
Fahrenheit 451 - The Other Countries
In the story Fahrenheit 451 at one point Guy mentions the fact that his country had already been in two nuclear wars since like 2000 or something like that. What caught mt attention was the fact that there were other countries. It really got me wondering what the other countries were like. What I came up with really resemble 1984 by George Orwell. In that book there is totalitarian government that control every single part of every ones life. This government run state is always in war. They are in war with two other countries who you get the idea that they are fighting for freedom. In my own opinion I get the same feeling when reading about the other two countries that Guy's country is fighting. Would it not make sense that if there is an evil government there is probably also a good government fighting to stop the evil one? My guess is the evil government want to control more and more land and it started messing with the good governments. Finally the good governments had no choice but to declare on the evil government. Most likely they figured hey while were at it we may as well free all these people who are lied to by their government. In all probability I am reading in to this story way to much. It was probably something used by the author as simply filler. It just happened to be something that really caught my attention and I figured I could expand on it a little more as well as draw some parallels to a story I feel is very similar which is 1984. Maybe Guy's government is the good one though and the other ones are even worse than Guy's or maybe it is a best of the worst sort of situation where all the governments are bad but one is less bad than all of the others. I do not really know either way.
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