Anthem and Fahrenheit 451 both touch on a very similar theme. The theme of Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and Anthem, by Ayn Rand can be linked to a universal theme, Equality has limits. Both books support this theme by supporting an idea of ​​utopia, and both failed in their own ways. Within Fahrenheit, the book builds its foundation on a perfect society. This idea is quickly quashed when Montag realizes that he is not happy. At one point in the book, he is forced to burn down a house with a person inside. Montag thinks, “How inconvenient! Before it had always been like blowing out a candle. The police moved in first and taped up the victim's mouth and bandaged him in their shiny Beetle cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house. You weren't hurting anyone, you were just hurting things! And since no harm could really be done, since the things heard nothing and did not scream or complain, as this woman might have started screaming and shouting, there was nothing to torment your conscience afterwards. You were just cleaning. Cleaning work, essentially. Everything in its place. Quick with kerosene! Who has a match?” (Bradbury, 1953, p. 36) This shows how Montag believed that burning a person's belongings was perfectly acceptable. He was blinded by how society thought it would be better and more equal without books; to the point that people were hurt. The idea of ​​equality and many other factors contribute to creating a sort of moral fog; Everyone thinks they are happy and that nothing is wrong. This false equality does not come without a price. The government felt that to make everyone equal it is necessary to eliminate the multiple tools used by people today. Books, being the main focus, are illegal to own and distribute… middle of paper… a lot of equality and the sense of maintaining that equality has been the downfall of this society. The reader will see this in In both books, society has chased a perfect image in an attempt to make everyone equal. Fahrenheit believed that by limiting everyone's knowledge and advancing technology to do things for them, they would reach a point where everyone would be equal. This failed due to their society's reliance on technology and the abolition of education, which ruined equality. Anthem took a similar approach, believing that if everyone did the same thing, looked the same, and worked with the same people, they could program people to be the same. This method almost worked, until Equality 7 - 2521 got curious. No one worked harder because there was nothing to work harder for. These books work side by side to bring a theme that can be drawn from both books; Equality has limits.