Essay On Mob Mentality

Mob mentality is created from the establishment of authority and power over another being or thing. This then causes others to look up to that person then fall in line beside him. Mob mentality is dangerous and yet it is one of the more common things in the world starting as soon as one is born, slowly learning to be like their parents, learning their tongue and behaviors. It is cultivated through years of school how one should act and be and what is not acceptable and what one should do to achive success. Ray Bradbury takes mob mentality and shows amazing examples, yet depressing scenarios, of it in Fahrenheit 451, “All Summer in a Day”, as well as in “The Pedestrian” with his favored idea for explanation of others wishing for complete and utter equality for the whole, with hatred of those who step out of that bubble of normality.
Without restraint, Ray Bradbury creates a world where books are illegal and any activity that does not consist of some electronic device is unthinkable, and henceforth made illegal. The rare binded paper is a thing in which if found in company of one you and your home and possibly your family will be burned to death, as well as

anyone that helped you commit such a crime. They kill people needlessly because a majority of the people thought it absolutely ridiculous that reading should be a past time, and that such an oddity should be eliminated and burned before it could “infect others”. This forms a view of disgust towards those who read and otherwise conduct activity with any form of text that is not a subtitle to a video or words on a commercial.
Children can be cruel, but they are also considered an unveiled form of human nature.

Bradbury exemplifies this up whilst writing “All Summer in a Day”, a saddening story,about how the will of one can turn into the will of many, causing an “accident” that can not be repaired and is unforgivable. Margot, a small girl who had an opportunity to live on Earth unlike the other children, is often bullied and picked on for remembering the feel of the sunlight upon her skin. Eventually, on the one day that the sun is to shine on their small planet, they lock poor, defenseless against the mob of children, Margot within a closet so she cannot be a part of this septennial event. This is done by the entire class by the whim of one student, mob mentality boiled down to the very basics of its core and shown by mere

children.
Within “The Pedestrian”, Ray Bradbury creates a world in which doing anything besides the “social norms” is a crime punishable by law. It takes the extremist idea that technology will make doing anything besides watching television unacceptable by the general people until the point where an alibi is the only thing that can prove you right whilst doing something against the wishes of them. The protagonist of the story is taken into custody for going on a moonlit walk to clear his mind, which is perceived to perhaps be an act of terrorism. This is considered an anomaly due to people becoming so absorbed into social conduct which result of mob mentality. It is the general whole affecting the a minority of people as determined by the sudden advancements of technology.
Mob mentality is something that should be treated as a wildfire. Dangerous to those who are involved in it and are taken victim by the unstoppable force of it; and painful to watch for those who watch. It creates holes in society that no one should have to tread by a majority of minorities do. It's like playing Russian Roulette with someone else’s life more at risk than your own so you give no care of it.