Okay, since you haven't read it, this is going to be a little hard ---
so bear with me.

As you probably alread know, Fahrenheit tells of society where books
are burned. They causing to much controversy and contridiction, books
are banned by a government that wants control people, keeping them
fed and happy throught the throws of sensationalism given to them by
the state of art entertainment. A fireman, name Montag, burns books
and the owners' houses. But having taken books, and hiding them, he
is curious, asking questions in exactly why books should be burned
and how firemen, who used to put out fires, now start them. Upon
meeting a young star struck seventeen year old, he soon learns that
there is more to life and books have much to offer in the way of
thinking or feeding the mind. He befriend old professor who then
leads the way to help Montag in better comprehending the meaning of
words, phrases, of what the sould meaning of the book is trying to
convey. Much to Montag misfortune, he is discovered when reading a
poem out loud to his wife Millie and her friends. She turns the alarm
on him and before he knows it, is a fugitive.

In comparing the government's practice of buring books to control
people, I see the same thing in Conquest in regards to motivation is
which to control the masses. The government (Breck) has no doubt
taken away a lot of freedoms. However, like the government pacifies
the Fahrenheit people with entertainment, so does Breck who uses the
apes to keep the majority happy. Those who are not happy, are the
minority, that being the labor demonstrators. The peoples attitude in
Congquest are much like those in Fahrenheit. As long as they have
what they want there is no problem.

To me, Ceasar is much like Clarisse, the star struck -- into life
teenager. It is because of her that Montag concious is awaken. It
because of Ceasar that McDonald is shaken to realize the truth. Like
Clarisse, Ceasar is also young and unique. A motif of her being
compared to fall leaves symbolizes that she is of nature. Ceasar
being an ape, also symbolizes nature. Clarisse so hidden by her
society is much like Ceasar in the way of being a myth and well as
something that is unknown or hidden.

Montag having books and making moves to read and better understand
them is good comparision of MacDonald taking action in saving Ceasar.
Like Montage, he has taken a risk and becomes a fugitive, of sorts.
Like Montag, he has betrayed his society that for years had been
lying to him, making truths into myths.

There is much to think about when having read Fahrenheit 451. It is
books which I think most totalitarian world building in science
fiction is based. You might disagree that book burning has nothing to
with conquest as there is book store. But if you see the orangutan as
metophore, you might agree that the orangutan is symbol of the truth,
that what she or he pulls off the shelves are just lies; that books
are censored. The book's title being "The Young Queen's Fall" does
well to foreboad the events in which is about to occur in the story;
the fall of mankind. Censorship can be much a part of that fall of
humankind.

In the movie Conquest, the apes set the city on fire. Later, we learn
that the city is completely destroid by nuclear bomb. In Brandbury's
book, the city which Montag lived and escaped from, is also destroyed
by a war.

Micheal, go to. I add more later.
Wendy








--- In PotaDG@yahoogroups.com, "Whitty, Michael"
<Michael.Whitty@d...> wrote:
> No, I haven't Wendy.
>
> Tell us more.
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: libraryape [mailto:Willowape@h...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:57 AM
> To: PotaDG@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [PotaDG] Conquest --- Farhenheit 451: read between the
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>
>
> Has anyone here read Bradbury's "Farhenheit 451"? If so, do you see
> any parallelism between "Conquest" to Bradury's novel? Reading and
> interpeting Fahrenheit in my English class, I find there are
> simiularities that are quite startling, allowing me to delve deeper
> in metaphores of "Conquest". I'm not just talking about fire or
> totalitarian soceity.
>
> Wendy
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