Propaganda is like a boomerang; it keeps coming back and hitting you straight in the face. The constant books and commercials and posters were everywhere, when Hitler was in the office. Everywhere the Germans turned they heard something about Hitler being great or hate this religion and shun these people. In the end average Joes have fallen to propaganda and brainwashing in history and in literature.
In Fahrenheit 451, America has taken away the rights to own books and all books must be burned and disposed of. The society of Fahrenheit 451 is very ironic. The people of this setting think of watching tv shows that have a script for you to say what they want you to say. The government is controlling these people and making them think what the government wants them to think. The government has succeeded in having the population being brainwashed by their evil doing.
Similarly in the short story "Harrison Bergeron", the society accepts their terms of having to wear their special handicaps. In the story all people literally equal. If a person is smart then they are given a handicap to reduce their thoughts, if a person is athletic then they are given a chain to slow them down, but if they are just plain dumb, then they are the norm and are given no handicaps.When a society has no way to think and no way to think about what is happening to them, they are being brainwashed right in front of themselves and they don't even know it.
The propaganda of Fahrenheit 451 and "Harrison Bergeron" are both different, but they have both one meaning: to sabotage our nation and make us think the way the government wants us to think. With these brainwashing techniques, the government will be successful controlling our minds.
