Happiness In Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

544 Words2 Pages

The meaning of Happiness How would the world without books, in a world where we are controlled by technology. We might already be even more to the point where our kids are taken away from us and we don't mind. In a world where suicide becomes normal. Well this is the world of Clarisse Montag's wife. Montag is a fireman who literally burns houses for a living, in his society that's what a fireman does for a living instead of saving lives, he burned houses but only if the people who live there have books. People don't know what they have lost, and they don't realize it either. They all think they're happy but how do they know they really are? Books help you go through the process of thinking. Since they are not allowed to read they kinda …show more content…

Happiness comes with feeling but how do we know they have feeling they don't care about their families. We know everyone live this because Montag's friend says everyone lives like this, they all stay home and enjoy the t.v. Everyone who doesn't gets their homes destroyed by the fire. There must be people who don't want to live like that because other wise how do the firemen have jobs? Their lives are guided by the t.v how would they want a feeling that they never in their lives have felt. We Can't blame just technology for this we all live how we want to, but how do we search for something that we don't know exist. You don't know how it feels what it is so you never want it, if they could just turn away from the t.v and look for something, they might just find something new. That could be more in interesting or enjoyable than the television. The old lady found something that was enjoyable for her, she loved it so much she would rather die than lose it. I think that's why she burned herself alive. They never find the meaning of happiness because they don't know what to look for. Technology doesn't take anything away from them, they take it away from themselves no one makes them watch t.v all day. If they don't look for something new they won't ever find any feeling or

Show More
Related

  • Reporting Live From Tomorrow By Daniel Gilbert Summary

    1150 Words  | 3 Pages

    Finally, he realizes technology makes people lose the ability to create happiness. As a result, although technology helps people make better decisions and improves their living conditions, it makes people lose the creativity and imagination to achieve happiness.

    Read More

  • Individual Vs. Society In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    1144 Words  | 3 Pages

    Once Montag witnesses the unethical extent that the firemen would go through to destroy the existence of books, he realizes how corrupt and unjust the societal rules were. “He looked with dismay at the floor. ‘We burned an old woman with her books” (47).

    Read More

  • The Degradation of Human Relationships in Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

    806 Words  | 2 Pages

    One of the most prominent themes throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 is the lack of human communication and social relationships. Ray Bradbury, who is the author of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, emphasizes the poor or almost non-existent relationships between many of the characters in the novel. The dilapidation of human contact in this work makes the reader notice an idea that Bradbury is trying to get across. This idea is that human communication is important and can be even considered necessary, even though our technology continues to advance.

    Read More

  • Fahrenheit 451 essay

    783 Words  | 2 Pages

    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.

    Read More

  • Books Should Be Banned In Fahrenheit 451

    659 Words  | 2 Pages

    The banning of books didn’t prepare them for what was in them. They were deeply astonished but on the outside scared. Book banning also led to ignoring important documents. Near the end of the book, Montag is talking to a man in the darkness and the man says, “So long as the vast population doesn't wander about quoting the Magna Carta and the Constitution” (147). Book banning also led to ignoring important documents. In our society, the Magna Carta and the Constitution are what specify the rules and laws of our society. Without this, there would be no peace which would lead to a completely different society than ours today. This dystopian society destroys books but many people in the dystopian society still don't see that. The banning of books causes many people to lose their minds and do what they're told which leads to violence. Banning books also brings sadness into the world because they don't know many things which will less prepare them for life. In this case, people in the dystopian society absolutely despise books but in reality, we need books. Their rule of no books completely changed the perspective of people in this dystopian society into an unstable society lacking

    Read More

  • Social Commentary in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    569 Words  | 2 Pages

    Albert Einstein once said “…Imagination is more important than knowledge…” but what if people lived in a world that restrained them from obtaining both knowledge and imagination. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Montag, expresses his emotions by showing the importance of social values. Throughout the novel, the secretive ways of a powerful force are exploited, the book also shows the faults in a new technological world, and the author shows the naïve way an average citizen in a dystopian society thinks.

    Read More

  • Deception of Happiness in Fahrenheit 451

    741 Words  | 2 Pages

    If one doesn’t know that they’re sad, they’re always happy. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in a future where books are banned and conformity is pressured. Firemen burn books, and information is censored. Without an ability to question, one cannot question their own happiness. With censorship, anything that can cause you to is removed, and this effect is increased. With reliance on technology, one is so immersed that it becomes almost impossible to question anything, let alone think for oneself, and they can be made to think that they are happy, when in reality, they aren’t. Because the government in Fahrenheit 451 removed the ability to question, censors books and ideas, and creates a reliance on technology, the people in Fahrenheit 451 have deceived themselves into believing they are happy and content.

    Read More

  • Happiness Explored in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

    1170 Words  | 3 Pages

    The philosopher Aristotle once wrote, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” This famous quote compels people to question the significance of their joy, and whether it truly represents purposeful lives they want to live. Ray Bradbury, a contemporary author, also tackles this question in his book, Fahrenheit 451, which deals heavily with society's view of happiness in the future. Through several main characters, Bradbury portrays the two branches of happiness: one as a lifeless path, heading nowhere, seeking no worry, while the other embraces pure human experience intertwined together to reveal truth and knowledge.

    Read More

  • Fahrenheit 451 Essay

    1147 Words  | 3 Pages

    People nowadays have lost interest in books because they see it as a waste of time and useless effort, and they are losing their critical thinking, understanding of things around them, and knowledge. Brown says that Bradbury suggests that a world without books is a world without imagination and its ability to find happiness. The people in Fahrenheit 451 are afraid to read books because of the emotions that they will receive by reading them and claim them as dangerous. Bradbury hopes to reinstate the importance of books to the people so that they can regain their “vital organ of thinking.” In Fahrenheit 451, Montag steals a book when his hands act of their own accord in the burning house, regaining his ability to read and think on his own (Bradbury 34-35; Brown 2-4; Lee 3; Patai 1, 3).

    Read More

  • The Pursuit of Happiness in Fahrenheit 451

    2866 Words  | 6 Pages

    Happiness plays an important and necessary role in the lives of people around the world. In America, happiness has been engrained in our national consciousness since Thomas Jefferson penned these famous words in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Jefferson). Since then, Americans have been engaged in that act: pursuing happiness. The problem however, as Ray Bradbury demonstrates in his novel Fahrenheit 451, is that those things which make us happy initially may eventually lead to our downfall. By examining Guy Montag, the protagonist in Fahrenheit 451, and the world he lives in we can gain valuable insights to direct us in our own pursuit of happiness. From Montag and other characters we will learn how physical, emotional, and spiritual happiness can drastically affect our lives. We must ask ourselves what our lives, words, and actions are worth. We should hope that our words are not meaningless, “as wind in dried grass” (Eliot).

    Read More

  • Fahrenheit 451 Identity Diversity Analysis

    1322 Words  | 3 Pages

    What would happen if people were all the same? Seems convenient, right? More like dangerous. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the world is deprived of books. Society is glued to technology, and personalities are monotonous. Montag, a firefighter who burns down houses with books, struggles to find himself after meeting teenager Clarisse who makes him question his ideals. Suddenly, Clarisse disappears, and Montag is lost. He feels tension at his job, and seemingly everyone turns against him. Beatty, Montag’s boss, persecutes him for having books. Montag retaliates and kills Beatty, and running becomes the only option. Fahrenheit 451 teaches many compelling messages for readers today because it poses a warning

    Read More

  • Who Is Liesel In The Book Thief

    623 Words  | 2 Pages

    Imagine being in Germany during World War II and the only things able to help you through this period of darkness is books, that’s what life was like for the main character, Liesel Meminger, in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. The entire story revolved around how books help you through thick and thin. For Example, Mein Kampf led Max to his refuge, Liesel would read to people when they need it (like when Max fell ill, or when everyone was in a bomb shelter), reading helped Liesel cope with her brother dying, and also so much more. The books that Max write for Liesel help her understand what he’s going through during this time. For example, The Standover Man shows everyone that Max was always protected by someone who cares about him throughout his life. In short, books have a very important meaning in

    Read More

  • Dangerous Pleasure-Seeking in Fahrenheit 451 and 'Masque of the Red Death'

    952 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty tells Montag, “You understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred…. People want to be happy…. Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That’s all we live for, isn’t it?” (Bradbury, 59). Happiness is what their society lives for. Mildred claims she is happy but earlier in the story she tried to commit suicide. Their whole society claims to be happy, that's what they want to be, but everyday there are many cases of suicide. This shows that they are not happy. Prince Prospero was known for being happy. Edgar Allan Poe described, “Prince Prospero was happy, dauntless, and sagacious” (PG#). Everybody at the party was happy and having fun. They were having the time of their lives at this extravagant party but every time the ebony clock struck every hour they stopped and listened. It reminded them of the Red Death but it showed that they have lived another hour of their lives. Both of these societies wanted to be happy. They censored all the bad things in life but it ended up making their lives

    Read More

  • How Does Beatty Create Happiness In Fahrenheit 451

    621 Words  | 2 Pages

    “‘Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside’” (Bradbury 63). This quote from Beatty perfectly describes Montag’s world, and our own. To keep people happy, eliminate all things that cause worry, regret, or sadness. The “frightening implication” made is that Bradbury describes what will happen to our nation soon if the act of censorship continues, that all things will be gone due to those who are offended by everything, and the “alarming resemblance” is that people are greatly disconnected due to technology, like how we are currently.

    Read More

  • Technology Increases Happiness

    376 Words  | 1 Pages

    Technology is, in some forms, directly related to happiness. Simple devices have been developed to make almost every aspect of life easier. Remote controls, laptop computers, palm pilots, and cellular phones are just a few examples of how technology is able to make life easier. People who own a new high grade computers are glad to have them because computers make simple task in life easier, as a result taking away stress. A lot of modern technology is taken for granted, but without theses devices, people would surely feel the loss since their lives would be more stressful, so today's technological devices truly do make up happier, or keep us happy.

    Read More

More about Happiness In Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

Open Document