Creativity In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

In modern day America, knowledge and happiness are being used as a source of individual creativity. Although, today’s society has also become more ignorant due to the world being overrun by technology. Bradbury illustrates, in his work Fahrenheit 451, that man must maintain the power of knowledge in order to gain individual creativity to achieve true happiness. Mildred’s lack of knowledge made her so reliant to technology and not her own individual thought which eventually made her unhappy in life. Mildred is married and yet she has no connection to her husband, Montag. This lack of connection is due to her inability to form close relationships with anyone outside of the “family” that lives in her televisions. “There [is] a wall between [Montag] and Mildred, not just one wall but so far, three! And expensive too!. No matter when [Montag] came in, the walls were always talking to Mildred”. This shows how their relationship is so unemotional due to her insufficient awareness of how reliant she has become to technology. Mildred has a deep hatred for books because of the fact that she has read some before but finds it not of any benefit to her and to life in general. She is not able to understand the meaning behind each book because she is always deeply occupied by countless hours of talking

Montag has become intrigued and interested in knowing what importance do books have to offer. He starts to have doubts if books really aren't important in life because of a woman he has encountered that stayed in a burning house. He says that “There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.” This illustrates his curiosity about books, if they are really worthless or the opposite. His desire to search for answers is because he feels that this might be the thing missing in his