Fahrenheit 451 is a fiction book that still reflects to our current world, Bradbury does a well job by predicting what the world would look like in the future. The future for his time and ours as well. The society Bradbury describes is in many ways, like the one we are living in now. Although the American society may seem much more normal than the society in Fahrenheit 451, when one thinks about the negative issue of that society, many of it resembles the same negative issues we encountered. The Bradbury’s society has many similarities along with many differences of our modern day society. In our society, things that may have been considered dangerous or out of the norm for teens such as murder becoming an “everyday …show more content…
The repetition of suicide is perhaps one of the book’s most chilling features. In the beginning, Mildred nearly dies of an overdose. Montage had to call the medical technicians to come change her blood. The workers is then insensitive and says “ we get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago we had this special machine built.”(pg 15). Later while in the firehouse, a fellow fireman says to montag “Montag, a funny thing. Heard this morning. Fireman in seattle, purposely set a mechanical hound to his own chemical complex and let it use. What kind of society would you call that? “ (pg. 29). In contrast another day, one night the fireman get a call that woman has illegal books in her house and rush to go burn them. When about to burn the house the women did not leave. Montag did not want to burn the house with her inside but then beatty says “These fanatics always try suicide; the patterns familiar” (pg 39). She took her own life and would rather die with her books than to be forced to live the way society has chosen. In Bradbury's society, suicide are common. In our American society, about every 15 people out of 100,000 people commit suicide. In our world it's known as depression. To understand the issue first look at the statics. Depression affects “ approximately 14.8 million” people, while each year “34,000 people commit suicide”. Bradbury did a well job on a …show more content…
Most of the information we receive from teens is Clarisse descriptive of what she gives Montag..When asked why she dont hang with people her age Clarisse explains to montag that she’s “ afraid of children” her “own age”. She says “six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone .Ten of them died in car wrecks I’m afraid of them and they don't like me because I am afraid” (pg 13). There are many ways teens are similar to teens in our worlds, although hers is more extreme. In Fahrenheit 451 they have a “fun park...or go out in the cars and race on the streets.” Also have a Window smasher place and a car wreck place where children can go and smash windows and wreck cars. While in our society one cannot turn on the news without hearing about another teenager shooting another teenager or teenager creating a massacre at school. There are also gang violence which make the lives of many teenagers. Car wrecking involving teenagers are very common too. Kids in our society are just as dangerous and reckless as the kids in Clarisse's
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 opens with Guy Montag, a fireman, reminiscing of the pleasures of burning. As the story unfolds, we learn that Montag is a fireman who rids the world of books by burning all that are found. Walking home one night Montag meets Clarisse, his strong minded neighbor. She begins peppering him with questions. Clarisse doesn’t go along with societal norms and Montag realizes that immediately. “I rarely watch the 'parlor walls ' or go to races or Fun Parks. So I 've lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess.” (Bradbury 3) Clarisse uses her imagination brought by stories from books and family instead of watching television. Clarisse helps Montag realize that the government induced censorship and conformation is stifling society’s education and imagination. Montag’s wife, Mildred ,is incapable of having a personal conversation with Montag. She conforms to societal standards and is greatly
The author of “Fahrenheit 451”, Ray Bradbury connects many issues in his society to a distant future where everyone can not read and question any aspect of their society do to the advanced technology in which the government controls everyone. Bradbury comes to this conclusion because as growing up he has always been fascinated by sci fi books and space adventures. As a young author Bradbury struggled to make a living out his writing. He first made the news articles in the LA times and then his most famous novel is Fahrenheit 451 .The novel concludes many aspects but the major conflicts that stood out to me were multiple marriages , addiction, and teen violence.
Clarisse McClellan is the spark, not the flame nor match of the novel. Her intelligence and optimistic mindset scares the rest of society away and they claim her to be “crazy” and “antisocial” because of it. But this does not bother Clarissa at all. If anything, she questions them and comes to very reasonable conclusions. For example, Bradbury 26 she differs from the others calling her “antisocial”. She states, “I am very social indeed… it all depends on what you mean by social. To me it is talking about how strange the world is. I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk.” She then goes into detail on how schools have you wrapped up on television and prefer to give the answers rather than to ask questions. These actions give off that
The theme of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 can be viewed from several different angles. First and foremost, Bradbury's novel gives an anti-censorship message. Bradbury understood censorship to be a natural outcropping of an overly tolerant society. Once one group objects to something someone has written, that book is modified and censorship begins. Soon, another minority group objects to something else in the book, and it is again edited until eventually the book is banned altogether. In Bradbury's novel, society has evolved to such an extreme that all literature is illegal to possess. No longer can books be read, not only because they might offend someone, but because books raise questions that often lead to revolutions and even anarchy. The intellectual thinking that arises from reading books can often be dangerous, and the government doesn't want to put up with this danger. Yet this philosophy, according to Bradbury, completely ignores the benefits of knowledge. Yes, knowledge can cause disharmony, but in many ways, knowledge of the past, which is recorded in books, can prevent man from making similar mistakes in the present and future.
Fahrenheit 451’s Relevance to Today Fahrenheit 451’s relevance to today can be very detailed and prophetic when we take a deep look into our American society. Although we are not living in a communist setting with extreme war waging on, we have gained technologies similar to the ones Bradbury spoke of in Fahrenheit 451 and a stubborn civilization that holds an absence of the little things we should enjoy. Bradbury sees the future of America as a dystopia, yet we still hold problematic issues without the title of disaster, as it is well hidden under our democracy today. Fahrenheit 451 is much like our world today, which includes television, the loss of free speech, and the loss of the education and use of books. Patai explains that Bradbury saw that people would soon be controlled by the television and saw it as the creators chance to “replace lived experience” (Patai 2).
In today’s world, there is an abundance of social problems relating to those from the novel Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist Montag exhibits drastic character development throughout the course of the novel. Montag lives in a world where books are banned from society and no one is able to read them. Furthermore, Montag has to find a way to survive and not be like the rest of society. This society that Montag lives has became so use to how they live that it has affected them in many ways. Bradbury’s purpose of Fahrenheit 451 was to leave a powerful message for readers today to see how our world and the novel’s world connect through texting while driving, censorship and addiction.
In the society presented by Ray Bradbury, the average person is superficial and exclusivly engages with their peers by means of mind numbing topics and statements that are not at all challenging. The intellectual and opinionated person are seen as rebellious and radical. Bradbury uses Faber’s analitical skills and deep thoughts to scruitinize the current society we live in, and he also likes to think about the “why” and no...
Both Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and William Golding's Lord of The Flies are social commentaries. They are both stories that give a theoretical situation and explain human behavior through the actions of the people within these stories. Bradbury and Golding have some very similar as well as very different opinions on human behavior and what we need.
Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction book that still reflects to our current world. Bradbury does a nice job predicting what the world would be like in the future; the future for his time period and for ours as well. The society Bradbury describes is, in many ways, like the one we are living in now.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. This materialistic society is where Bradbury believed society today is headed<THE TENSES HERE ARE A LITTLE CONFUSING.>. The materialistic society in Fahrenheit 451 created through Bradbury's cynic views of society<THIS IS A FRAGMENT SENTANCE.> His views of society are over-exaggerated in contrast with today's events, especially in the areas of censorship and media mediocrity.
To summarize, Fahrenheit 451 can still be used to caution our current civilization about the dangers of following the same path as the nation in the novel. Mankind in this novel had a wealth of problems, most notably a superficial over-reliance on technology, a major increase in violence, particularly regarding children, and the loss of the ability to socialize. These problems combined into a social status quo that was malevolent, ignorant, and terrifying. Our society is on the verge of becoming such. Though the problems presented in the novel are in relatively drastic compared to our current circumstances, if we turn a blind-eye, the problems are to continue to grow in magnitude until our society is exactly like the one in the book. Our civilization
However, the “wrong” thing in our society and in their society is quite different. In our society, it is against the law to go over the speed limit assigned to that road. We also have sidewalks where pedestrians are free to roam. Also, our doctors are well educated and it is completely illegal to smoke in an emergency room. On the other hand, in Fahrenheit 451 it seems the laws are almost the complete opposite. It is against the law to go too slow, you cannot go under the speed limit of 40mph (Bradbury ). It is against the law to be a pedestrian, the drivers are allowed to hit you at full speed and they are free of charge (Bradbury ). Lastly, in the Fahrenheit 451 society the doctors smoke in the emergency room and it almost seems they had no education at all because they were very unprofessional and careless (Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is about a fire man named Guy Montag, who 's job is not to put out fires but to set them. The Novel is about a city that books are band from and news papers are dead and the only media they are allowed is tv. The reason why books are illegal is because books contain knowledge, and thats something that the city doesn 't want them to have. Guy Montag’s job was to set every book he saw on fire, every house that contained the books, and anyone who lived among those books. Humanity was already destroyed by then and none of the people that lived in the city had any recognition of what was going on because no one knew that kind of knowledge. Along with the burning books, nature and real connections with other people have pretty much been shut out, and the result? A society that is now blind by it’s own ignorance and is being destroyed by it without anyone even
...g in the novel and society are intense upon teens. The connections between his book and today's society are alarming due to the fact that the teens of the novel relate alarming to the children of today. Many people, who die due to the amount of teen centered violence, many not of the same age group. It hurts the individuals and the society in a whole.
In Montag’s society, everyone is the same, and no one questions anything that is happening around them. Clarisse, a girl who questions the way their society works, tells Montag, ‘“They