Crucible And Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

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Two books by the names of The Crucible and Fahrenheit by Arthur Miller and Ray Bradbury show many similarities, even though they have completely different topics. They both show how the judgment of a group or a person can result in bad things. Both books reflected on the fragility of human society and the potential consequences of unchecked power and ignorance. At the beginning of both books, we are introduced to two main characters, Guy Montag and John Proctor. They both have very similar hopes that the government will realize when they are wrong and maybe try taking someone's idea instead of censoring the public and using a cancel culture to do things that the public does not want but doesn't have the power to say anything about it. The books start in different settings with The Crucible being in the 1600s and Fahrenheit 451 being in 2053, Although these books are way apart from each other the message about censorship and cancel culture ties into the reason these authors wrote their books you can see the first piece of propaganda in the first chapters of the books. …show more content…
While this wasn't the case, she didn't want to tell people what she was truly doing (casting a spell on John Proctor's wife) so she decided instead of telling the truth she would lie and start a huge witch hunt because of it. People believed and held their tongues because if she wanted to she could accuse someone and most likely get them hung and she blamed a very powerless woman in the town of Salem. She blames a woman named Tituba who is a slave to the Willams and an easy target for Abigail's lie. This is also shown in Farheient 451 when the government outlaws books to keep “ society happy” Guy Montag would find this hard to believe after walking with classes who somehow had outside knowledge about books and shared some things with Montag who was more intrigued about