Isolation refers to the “state of separation between people or groups”. In 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury explore the idea of ​​isolation in the futuristic world in which the novels are set as a warning to modern society. The Inner Party uses several methods to take almost complete control over its people. They want people to be cold and indifferent towards others, all while having fear slowly drilled into their minds. Isolation is something the Inner Party wants to see. They want people to be isolated from each other so that the concept of “us” is completely eliminated. If everyone keeps to themselves, they can't unite and possibly overthrow Big Brother, which the Inner Party is afraid of. To prevent this possibility, everyone has been more or less brainwashed by the Inner Party. They all follow the menacing Big Brother who rules over everything, even if they never see him. David Goodman even says in “The Future is Here” that Big Brother is “only seen on television…never appears in public,” yet Party members still blindly follow him. This shows how people are brainwashed but don't even realize it. Big Brother and the Inner Party want to keep everyone separate from each other. Their desire has gotten so out of control that they have gone so far as to put a device in everyone's homes that monitors everything they do. These diabolical machines are called telescreens. They observe what people do and listen to what they say. This is an extremely effective move by the Inner Party because it allows them to capture anyone who even thinks of rebellion in the form of assimilation. If people can't even think about forming a rebel... middle of paper... 2014.Malinowitz, Harriet. "The 'Newspeak' of our time." The Women's Review of Books, September 2004: 19+. Literary Resource Center. Network. April 10, 2014. McGiveron, Rafeeq O. “Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.” Explainer 54.3 (Spring 1996): 177-180. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. vol. 235. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. Network. April 27, 2014.Orwell, George. 1984. New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1949. Print. Rand, Ayn. Hymn. New York: Dutton, 1995. Print.Sisario, Peter. "A Study of Allusions in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451." English Newspaper 59.2 (February 1970): 201-205. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Deborah A. Stanley. vol. 98. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Network. April 27, 2014. WriteWork contributors. “1984: Isolation” WriteWork.com. WriteWork.com, 17 April 2004. Web. 09 April. 2014.