Realism In Fahrenheit 451 Analysis

Ray Bradbury a numerous amount of realism and irony in his novel Fahrenheit 451. At the start of the novel I didn’t understand why a fireman would burn anything let alone books. Guy Montag, the main character was unhappy with his life, even though the government controlled what there was to be happy about, what they thought about, what they watched, and how far the imaginative thinking process would go. It compares to the real world today by how much the government controls now and it’s possible for those events to occur in this present time. Technology is growing rapidly and books have been turned into audiobooks and eBooks. Some of the ideas and events from the novel exist in today’s society which has changed the world drastically. If things

Guy Montag, was a fireman. The dictionary definition of fireman is: “1. Firefighter; 2. A person employed to extinguish or prevent fires.” (Dictionary ) The fireman in the novel was the complete opposite. They started fires due to the fact that the government wanted to destroy the thinking process, controlling and dictating lives, and diminishing the imagination. What was ironic about Guy Montag was that he was a fireman and had been collecting and keeping books hidden for 10 years. He was bored with his life and Clarisse gave him food for thought. Guy enjoyed her company and liked the conversations that would take place between them. Part of his curiosity had come from interesting things she would say to him. He was also curious about why the law deemed it illegal to have the books and hadn’t actually read any of them until he witnessed a woman, whom committed suicide rather than watching her books and house burn, sacrifice herself over books. Front porches were removed for the purpose of controlling their minds and thoughts. I believe that eventually if the world continues to evolve in the direction it’s headed for then the firemen known as real firemen could also be turned into an exact replica of the firemen in Fahrenheit