Imagine living in a world of total rejection of liberal ideas and absolute conformity. The citizens of this world do not have the freedom to choose their profession. In fact, these citizens have no rights. They cannot express themselves freely, they have no personal freedom or privacy, and the media is aggressively censored. This is the world of George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. The protagonist of Fahrenheit 451 is Guy Montag, and he is a firefighter. His job is to completely destroy the books by setting them on fire. Winston Smith is the main character of 1984, where he works as a civil servant in the lower class ruling party. These two men are fascinated by the past and by life before a totalitarian government. This fascination arouses rebellion in both men. Both societies revealed in these books are facing a loss of freedoms and are very tightly controlled. The loss of individual freedoms allows a totalitarian government to inspire loyalty in its citizens by using propaganda to condition citizens' thinking, stealing individuals' privacy, subjecting them to poverty and constant fear of punishment. , as demonstrated in the novels Fahrenheit 451. and 1984. George Orwell and Ray Bradbury have many similar views and received similar reviews for their books. George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, grew up in a "lower-upper middle class" family. His father worked for the Indian Civil Service in India until Orwell was a year old, when his father retired and the family moved to England. Orwell was under great pressure to succeed in school. After university, Orwell himself joined the Indian Civil Service. He grew to like the Burmese and was unhappy with the oppression...... middle of paper ......, Florida: Harvest, 1968. Print.Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Interpretations of Bloom: Fahrenheit 451-New Edition. New York, New York: Infobase Publishing, 2008. Print. Maier, Hans. Totalitarianism and political religions, Volume III: Concepts for the comparison of dictatorships: theory and history of interpretation. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007. Print. Orwell, George. 1984. New York: New American Library, 1949. Print.---. Why I write. Orlando, Florida: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1981. 309. Print.Resch, Robert Paul. “Utopia, dystopia and the middle class in George Orwell’s 1984.” Limit 2 24.1 (1997): 137-176. Internet. April 29, 2011. Rodden, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.