During the time of Fahrenheit 451, the culture of the people there are exaggerated compared to this current time. There is a lack of critical thinking, which is the catalyst of drug overdosing, destructive behaviors, and artificial human contact. It isn’t seen as a bad life to the people though. They think they are happy because they are kept busy, and aren’t able to think and realize they are unhappy. So, to ensure that people don’t think too much, they have firemen. They burn books because they have stopped being used, and they can stimulate critical thinking, which is considered to cause despair in people. Most people in the city live life, but they don’t take time to observe, or think about the world around them. It doesn’t feel like they …show more content…
It was normal for teenagers to kill each other, and other animals, but Clarisse didn't do that, she saw her generation as undisciplined. She enjoyed nature and valued thought provoking conversations. She was curious, and observant. She affected people the way Granger’s grandfather would. After Montag made it across the river, he was able to relax, and that gave him time to realize how beautiful nature was. He was also trying to find where to go. He eventually saw some tracks, and as he was walking down this path he felt that Clarisse had been there before(138). It was kind of like her legacy. She left her curiosity, peacefulness, care, and love for nature behind in Montag. When Montag got to that place he must of subconsciously remembered the conversations they had, and how she liked nature. He also remembered how infatuated she was with the world when they first met. When he was across the river, he got a strange, yet familiar feeling. He remembered clarisse because he had unique memories of her. On page five Clarisse began talking to Montag about drivers, and how the cars have gotten so fast over the years. It seemed to bother her how people don’t see the details of the things outside the car when they drive by. Like how those days people would identify a green blur as grass. This exhibits that she was in touch with the world. She …show more content…
She had overdosed before, she found it normal to kill animals, and she prefered the parlor walls over actual human interaction. She didn't want anything to do with the real world that surrounded her. This can be seen on page 69, which is about how Montag reveals to Mildred that he has stolen books, and he wants her to help him by reading books, and not calling the firemen on him, but she gets defensive when he asks her to read. What she wants is for Montag to burn the books so that the house won’t get burned, which would include The Relatives who are tv characters. Mildred couldn’t care less about other people. Montag seemed to be going crazy, but all she could think about were The Relatives. She spends all of her time with the parlor walls. Montag had been asking her alot questions, but she never liked answering them. When she is with The Relatives though, she talks to them, but they are scripted insignificant responses. She doesn't want to think for herself, she just wants to follow the rules of the majority. Mildred, as well, isn’t in touch with the world. She doesn't value life because it didn’t seem to phase her that someone is no longer existing, and everything that person was doing, is not going to be done the same ever again. This also leads to how she doesn't really know about human interaction. Montag was livid when Mildred told him that Clarisse was dead, but she must've thought he was overreacting. Montag and
Mildred is not just self-centered, she is also unfeeling. For example she forgot to tell Montag that clarisse had died, and didn’t seem fazed at all. She is also robotic. When captain Beatty came to talk to Montag, Montag had asked her to leave the room. She did angrily, but she still did as she was told.
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.
Clarisse infers what happens when censorship continues to be allowed. She is a strong character used to alter Montag’s thinking. Clarisse tells of a near utopic time years before when there were porches on houses, families and neighbors socializing, and having a book wasn’t illegal, before government control began by taking the porches off the houses to prevent socializing. That first action evolved into book burning enacted censorship. Clarisse helps Montag open his eyes and see the world in a different way. She loves nature and tells him about things he had possibly forgotten. "Bet I know something else you don 't. There 's dew on the grass in the morning." He suddenly couldn 't remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable.” (Bradbury 3) She helps him realize that the government using censorship and denying the people the freedom of what they can read and the ability to learn is producing a stupid
The questioning from Clarisse has led Montag to a loss of self-esteem. Clarisse, Montag’s new neighbor, starts a conversation with him. Clarisse has a different personality than the other people Montag knows at the fire station. She is very outgoing, likes nature, and is not into socializing. When Clarisse asks about Montag’s job, she says that Montag is a fireman without the typical fireman qualities.
Are you really happy? Or are you sad about something? Sad about life or money, or your job? Any of these things you can be sad of. Most likely you feel discontentment a few times a day and you still call yourself happy. These are the questions that Guy Montag asks himself in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this book people are thinking they are happy with their lives. This is only because life is going so fast that they think they are but really there is things to be sad about. Montag has finally met Clarisse, the one person in his society that stops to smell the roses still. She is the one that gets him thinking about how his life really is sad and he was just moving too fast to see it. He realizes that he is sad about pretty much everything in his life and that the government tries to trick the people by listening to the parlor and the seashells. This is just to distract people from actual emotions. People are always in a hurry. They have 200 foot billboards for people driving because they are driving so fast that they need more time to see the advertisement. Now I am going to show you who are happy and not happy in the book and how our society today is also unhappy.
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.
... ideas in books and understand them. Before this Montag never questioned the way he lives, he was blinded by all the distractions. The role that Clarisse plays in the book enables Montag to break free of the ignorance.
Montag finds himself starting to grow fascinated with Clarisse and her eccentric idea’s. He hopes that when he gets off work ...
When Montag turns off the “family” Millie gets fidgety and nervous. Without technology, Mildred is emotionally detached; this trait is portrayed when she casually mentions Clarisse’s death, not seeming worried or concerned in the slightest. The only thing she seems to care about is the “family”, even when Montag inquires, “‘Millie, does… does your “family” love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?’” (73). She once again displays her concern only for the “family” when she turns Montag in. She rushes out the door, worried about the “family” getting burnt, feeling bad for three TV screens and the programs played on them. Another example of this emotional detachment comes from Clarisse’s family. Captain Beatty labels them as eccentric when he tells Montag, “We’ve a record on her family. We’ve watched them carefully. Heredity and environment are funny things. You can’t rid yourselves of all the odd ducks in just a few years” (60). They’re considered strange, odd, different. And yet, they are the most similar to humans today, conversing late into the night, talking to each other, sharing their thoughts with one
The North Korean government is known as authoritarian socialist; one-man dictatorship. North Korea could be considered a start of a dystopia. Dystopia is a community or society where people are unhappy and usually not treated fairly. This relates how Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 shows the readers how a lost of connections with people and think for themselves can lead to a corrupt and violent society known as a dystopia.
Clarisse is a distinct contrast towards the people in society. She seems lively and unrealistic in this dull, robotic society, due to her old and traditional beliefs, as opposed to the rest of society who is sucked into its ideas and agrees with their way of living. Clarisse loves watching the rain and tasting it on her lips. She takes time to notice the flowers, watch birds, and collect butterflies. In Montag’s second meeting, the two of them find a dandelion and Clarisse tells Montag of rubbing it under the chin. Clarisse remarks, “If it rubs off, it means I’m in love.” (22) Clarisse even values superstition; something that is completely against this society. Since she is tremendously incompatible with this civilization, they regard her as strange and different. She is even forced to visit a psychiatrist for her abnormal and unpractical behavior, but in truth, she symbolizes youth, question, innocence...
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).
There are many dualisms in the outside world of Fahrenheit 451. For example, Montag receives contrasting lectures from Faber and Beatty on what to do with the books and how to be. Beatty and Faber are like black and white: total opposites no matter how you look at it. This "flip-side of a coin" clearly compares the book burner to the book reader, the hatred to the love, and it also gives the reader the opportunity to "choose" their side. In addition, the fire is used to burn houses and books, to destroy possessions; it also is used by the outcast men to cook their meal, warm themselves, and provide light for them. The fire has, in itself, two conflicting sides which includes destruction and preservation. The fire gives Montag as well as the reader the understanding that one thing can have both good qualities and bad qualities at the same time, and that many powers can be spoiled if used for negative intentions.
In the 21 st centery, we have the opportunity to access all the world's information at our fingure tips. Imagaine a day when everything that we had suddenly is moderated and censored. That is what Mr. Ray Bradbury wrote about in the book Fahrenheit 451- the Temperature at Which Book Paper Cathes Fire and Burns. This is a great novel about how we as an American society's future could become. Books are illegal in the society and every house is fireproofed, it is the job of all the firemen to burn andy house that contains books. Guy Montag is the main charcter of the book and he is a fireman. He is happy and content to he meets a girl named Clarisee, a 17 year old girl who begins to talk to him and challenge his way of thinking. This girl has sparked him to look deeper into his lifea nd learn more about the world, and himself. As the novel goes on we find out more about his world. He starts keeping books,reading, and memorzing them. He is married with a wife, Mildred who reperesents the society as a whole, sits in the TV parlor with her family, and watches TV all the time. This is an example of how the Fahrenheit 451 bring to the readers attention of ignorance by censorship in modern society, the unfilling role of technology at its finest with modern day social interation and problems.
While Beatty, Montag’s boss and captain of fire station 451, is explaining to Montag how the job of being a fireman came to be, he also mentions the people’s desire to be happy. People become unhappy when they disagree with one another. The government wants to fulfill the wants of a man and therefore wants him to be happy so they, “don’t give him two sides to a question ... give him one. Better yet give him none” (58). All people have a difference of opinions, one person may think one thing is right and another person may believe that another thing is right. This is part of what makes humans human, to be able to think on their own and form their own opinions based on their experiences. To take this away from people is taking away from a person's being and personality. If a society is chipping away at it’s people and restricting information so nobody can form opinions then that society is a threatening environment. In order to limit the amount of opinions and different ideas that make people unhappy the government has to eliminate the information that people are receiving. With the majority of the information being spread by book, the government decided to stop the spread of books by burning them. People all around the world read and they read to gather information to know more about the world and what it holds. It is natural for people to crave and seek for knowledge and it is apart of everyday life for a great amount of people if not all people in the world. The government in Fahrenheit 451 restricts the knowledge available to it’s people, this goes against natural human behaviors and creates a threatening environment. In addition to being detrimental to human behavior and personality, the society Montag lives in is also physically harmful. Once while talking to Clarisse, Montag learns, “six