F451 By Ray Bradburry: Theme Analysis

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In the novel F451 by, Ray Bradburry, the author uses the characters, outcomes, and situations to represent one of the main themes of this novel. Just a brief explanation so you get a deeper understanding of this book this book was supposely written in the future. Which includes the way that people’s way of thinking might be later on. . And what my thoughts were when I finished the book were that maybe Ray Radburry wanted us to understand that books are not just a bunch of pages glued together to bored and stress people out. They are the doors to knowledge. But in this novel he portrayed books as evil as something that makes people unhappy. And what replaces books it’s technology so that’s one of the themes I am going to explain technology …show more content…

Compare the technology back then to what it is now.The sea shells could now be the earphones are not the earplugs the parlor walls are now the plasmas that people just sit inf ront all day. Instead of interacting with our families we are making a big mistake we are also being blinded by techoinoligy. Technology is the goverment’s s way of making peolple happy by entertaining them with all kinds of technology. They don’t want people to think because to them thinking makes them unhappy. It’s responsible for replacing literature, intellectualism, and curiosity. Plus it’s also replacing family, friendships any kind of interaction. Like mildred once called the parlor walls her family… "Will you turn the parlour off?" he asked. "That's my family." Answered Mildred (1.493-4). This portrays family as something had has no love or emotions. That why Montag once confesed taht if mildred died he wouldn’t …show more content…

"I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix...I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal...I'm afraid of children my own age."And that’s clarisse she was considered antisocial because she did interact with her family. She had human interaction. They will sit outside her porch and actually have human interaction which was unusual for the society in that time era. And also there were those characters that were trying to find fullllfilment like montag. Since he met clarisse he realized he needed a meaning to life. That’s when montag seaked for Faber. Fabere was once a teacher and had given montag his phone number. And faber told montag "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn?" This means that life with no meaning means nothing. And montag is one of the few who is realizing that they are living in ignorance, which is another important theme in the novel which I won’t go in depht

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