Fahrenheit 451 v.s. Equilibrium

Fahrenheit 451: In a time and age when reading has been made illegal punishable by governmental arson against your house, Guy Montag, has challenged the laws. In this society firemen start the fires against the offenders instead of putting them out, they walk around with kerosene on their backs dousing houses in fire. Guy Montag starts out as a "fireman" who does his job exceedingly well until one day he meets Clarisse, a girl who reads. This girl questions why he chooses to burn books instead of read them, and to her surprise he tells her that he actually has never read a book before. This chain of events leads Mr. Montag to steal a book which causes him to run for his life from his fellow firemen. The firemen have this diabolical "search-and-destroy" machine, which is described as a metal hound with hypodermic needles as teeth with paralytic poison strong to kill a human, which they set upon Montag in order to bring him to "justice" under their laws.


Equilibrium: In this society all types of feeling and emotion are made to be illegal, as well as anything that provokes such emotions. Such offensive material include: Books, art, music, perfume/cologne, lamp shades, mirrors above certain heights and lengths, and bright colors. In order to preserve human life after WWIII these laws were put in place with the idea that if mankind cannot feel then they cannot incite wars, and they cannot commit crimes. The enforcement the society has are called the Tetragrammaton who have elite super-soldiers/assassins called Grammaton Clerics that search our and kill (in the movie they called it processing but in reality they cremate you alive) all the "sense-offenders".


Synthesis: Through both plot lines the governments both try to oppress any form of uprising by exterminating them, however all it takes is for one person to have the will-power to stand up and they can change history.

Joy Synthesis

"Joy is a personal feeling of great euphoria. It is a feeling of delight and happiness."
-Lucas

"My Definition of Joy - The feeling of complete happiness. The desire to do nothing else in the world except that one thing that makes all your fears, troubles, and worries disappear like the dark shadows of night when the sun comes up."
-Brian

Synthesis:
Joy is a individual feeling of ultimate satisfaction in which once the bliss occurs all the worries disappear like shadows in the sunlight.

What is Joy?

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To me all that joy is is the feeling of being carefree. The freedom that you feel after you get out of school for the summer, the feeling of freedom after say being in church or being on vacation. The feeling of joy is the ability to not worry about anything and just live your life in the moment.

Gender Roles

In today's society they tell you not to walk but not to run. They tell you how to act and how to think, but what boundaries are the ones that dictate how macho we have to be? How feminine women should be? These boundaries are gender roles, and just like you see in these pictures it is apparent why today's vast majority of the population is confused about what to do, and afraid to like and do what they like to do. For men they tell us that we have to be
"built," but they also tell us that we have to eat "man-sized" meals to define ourselves. For women they tell them that they have to wear makeup in society but not too much makeup otherwise they look like "whores." Some people go around and say that they don't follow their gender roles, that they are "independent" but most of these gender roles are subconscious. Ask yourself, why is it that whenever you see a sidewalk you choose to walk on it instead of making your own path? It is the subconscious form of control that dictates how you act in society. Now instead of "doing your own thing" you now have forms of control that tell you where to go and when, and just like the sidewalk example we all fall into what society tells us to do. Gender roles in today's society tell us what we need and are supposed to act like, dress like, and even think like. In order to be a man in today's society we need to be strong, we need to be tough, and we need to defend our masculinity at all costs. In order to be a female in today's society you need to be dainty, and submissive. You can see every kind of reinforcing these stereotypes by just looking at what we watch and read (Sex in the City, Motor Cross, Vogue) and even in the toys and games that our children enjoy (Baseball, Ballet, GI Joe, Barbie). Guys today constantly insult each other by calling them "fags" if they like one movie or the other. Our society has bastardized its "gender roles" even to the point where in a few cases defendants have gotten away with murder because the victim was gay and they were just "defending their masculinity." Even in our rhetoric we see today in the entertainment industry we label movies as "chick flicks." So my only thing to add to this is the next time you see a person, think about them, then think about the label you just gave them. Don't try to say you don't label people because everyone label's people, whether it be straight, gay, retro, bi, fat, skinny, hot, sexy, or even cute everybody labels.