Fahrenheit 451 Knowledge Essay

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Write an essay on the importance of knowledge. In your introduction and conclusion, you should also relate what happened in the novel to what is happening today. Imagine living in a society where knowledge is viewed as imperfection and is believed to engender conflict. So, they are eradicated and ignorance is promoted. This novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury illustrates a society where the government has gained control over its people by telling them what to think instead of letting them think for themselves. Guy Montag, a fireman, who burns books, takes a certain amount of pride in his job. It is not until he meets a seventeen year old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who opens his eye to the emptiness …show more content…

Infact he does not even recollect the first time they met or falling in love with her. The moment he realizes how ignorant he has become is when he is told he is “not in love with anyone”(22). For the first time, Montag commences to apprehend that there is more to life than what he has. The moment Clarisse McClellan strikes him with these words, he realizes that his love for his wife is dead and that they barely even spend time together. She watches her television; he goes to work, and this repetitive routine caused the death of their relationship.In an ignorant society people do not understand what, love, happyness and to be independent, without the government controlling their each moves and emotions, feels like. Whereas knowledge helps them understand these things as it gives them new ideas and resources to figure out how to be powerful, happy and independent …show more content…

The government has controlled the people through intimidation and fear ignore sources of knowledge. For example, they used mechanical hound to engender fear in people because it senses differences throughout society and anyone who is caught contravening the government would be dispensed.The government also burns books and destroys every source of knowledge in order to control their citizens minds. Montag feels there is something special in these books, but the truth is, “there is nothing magical about books at all but the magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for [us]”(83). What Montag doesn't understand is that he doesn't need books in order to assimilate knowledge, but what he needed are the things that are in the book, the same things can be projected through television and radios but are not. Since this is such an ignorant society the government has been able to control their citizens by preventing them from gaining knowledge so they can run the town the way they

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