NORTH KOREA VS FAHRENHEIT 451

GOVERNEMENT

• The government in North Korea is similar to the one in Fahrenheit 451
• Both control what the people are allowed to do and what they aren't
• Both totalalitarian
• Believed that their government has made them happy

GOVERNMENT QUOTE

• "If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a
• question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
• Let him forget there is such a thing as war." page 61

SOCIETY

• In both Farhenheit 451 and North Korea
• Both of the people in them are only allowed to do
• What the government allows and disallows them to do

SOCIETY QUOTE

• The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time . . . Time was busy burning the years and the people anyway,
• without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, !
• that meant that everything burnt

CONTROL

• The government controls everything in both societies including books
• Also, the government controls what the people are allowed to believe in
• “Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.”

CONFORMITY

• Conformity happens in both North Korea and Fahrenheit 451
• Both people in the societies conform to their governments
• “Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner,
• burn em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.”

PROPAGANDA

• The government lies to the citizens to mislead them and lead them
• To believe in lies that they both feed them in both North Korea and 451
• "Rule 1. Answer the alarm swiftly. 2. Start the fire swiftly.
• 3. Burn everything. 4. Report back to firehouse immediately. 5. Stand alert for other alarms"
• This quote relates because the government fools them into burning books

REBELLION

• Montag and citizens of NK both rebelled and changed
• What was happening in both of their societies
• "We depend on you. I don’t think you realize how important
• you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now."