The world we live in today is similar to the world of Fahrenheit 451, made up by Ray Bradbury. The people of their world are threatened by the government controlling them, as a whole and as an individual. Not only are they in danger from their government, our world too is similar in that aspect.
Fahrenheit 451’s world supports war with another country, as Faber states on page 131, "You know the war's on?" Their government, like ours, fights in a war that they say are going to easily win, which is not the truth. In our world, the United States is fighting a war in the middle east that they know will never be settled.
Another reason our world and the world of Fahrenheit 451 are parallel is because our lives as individuals are very similar. Beatty describes their life in a very simple cycle, stating, “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries of more.” That is a very true quote that is part of our lives today, because it explains that when you are born, you first arrive in the nursery. You then study and spend the rest of your life trying to get into a good college. Finally, after you retire, you go back to the nursery in the state of a retirement home.
Those are just a couple of the several examples on how our world is parallel to the world of Fahrenheit 451.
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