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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
If you found the characters flat it's because you didn't understand what the book was about and you could hardly blame Orwell for that.
It wasn't. Anything to back those claims up though?
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They were flat because they didn't compell me, the story was good, the theme and the ideas behind it were good, but the characters could've died in the first chapter and I wouldn't have given a ****.
Guy Montag was a compelling protagonist and unlike Orwell who wrote the story just for the message, Bradbury wrote the story with the intention of "writing a good story."
The idea of censorship in terms of 451 is the head of the snake that leads to Big Brother, and that end is not very deep in the hat, America was perfectly okay with the banning of books deemed "morally unacceptable."
Bradbury's story was a more heated opinion than Orwell's, Orwell wasn't even a russian.