Memory in the age of "Hearth and Salamander'' and "Memory Hole" memory and totalitarianism in George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Regarding Pierre Nora's contribution on the memory studies and Hanna Arendt on totalitarianism ,Arendt believes that memory is dangerous for the totalitarian powers. That is why they deliberately tackle memory for the sake of their present interests, in the result the hegemonic powers erase some parts of the past, some are more focused and others are forgotten. Nora states that some subjects are very crucial and they have energetic power because those subjects are capable of retrieving the past memories. In both the novels the past memories are erased and updated, and the authoritarian regimes of both novels prohibited those subjects (ink, book, diary and pen). In this thesis, memory is used to indicate the past (history and knowledge) of the nations. The totalitarian regimes in both the novels in a minute by minute manner update and destroy undesired parts of the past heritage of their community. The issue of memory in both dystopian fictions is paid much consideration by the totalitarian regimes of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, because it links with the identity and unity of the nation. The past is not what the totalitarian regimes desire for that is why the past is rubbed out by the dominant power in both novels, instead the original past; the totalitarian powers invent new types of memory that fulfills their ideological ends. For exposing and implementation the new memory media, language and technology have a great impact. Clinging to the past memories makes outstanding transition in the life of the protagonists.