Some of the themes shared between Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E would be the loss of individuality due to loss of time to think, the possibility of redemption because of the chance to start over and learn from the mistakes of the past, and security, because people draw comfort from what is easy and society catered to this need.
Individuality is what makes everyone separate from each other, but in both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E, no one has any time to think because they are constantly bombarded with information and never given any time to think about any of it themselves. In WALL-E, people had no time to interact with each other or see the world around them because they were constantly occupied with the screens and technology that were in front
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of their faces at all hours. When it was announced that blue was now a more popular and hot color than red, every person changed the color of their clothes without a thought. None of them thought about what they were doing, just went with what they were told was going to be cool and make you more popular, which had the effect of making everyone the exact same. Part of captain Beatty's job was to understand why things were sped up the way they were, and another part was to explain it to those firemen who dared to question what they were told. When Captain Beatty finds out that Montag had taken home a book, he comes to explain everything about why their society was the way that it was, saying “‘Picture it. Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending’” (54). As time passed, things got faster and faster and broke themselves down to become easier to digest. Instead of reading a whole book, with exposition and purple prose, books were broken down to be just action. The books themselves eventually became too slow, and then movies and shows emerged. To this point in the novel, society has sped up so much that the people are bombarded with so much information that they no longer have time to think of their own opinions on things but instead just accept the opinion that is given to them. This was another thing that was encouraged by their society. As Beatty tells Montag, “If you don’t want a man to be unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none’” (61). They stopped allowing the people time to have their own opinions, either giving them an opinion or just not allowing them to form one at all. This was one of the things that Faber understood. As he said to Montag, “‘Off-hours, yes. But time to think? If you’re not driving a hundred miles an hour, at a clip where you can’t think of anything else but the danger, then you’re playing some game or sitting in some room where you can’t argue with the four-wall televisor. Why? The televisor is ‘real.’ It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in… it rushes you so quickly to its own conclusions that your mind hasn’t time to protest...’” Faber understands how they do it, keeping everyone from having their opinions and own thoughts. He can see how they are constantly bombarded with so much information that they have no time to do anything but accept it. In both of their societies, no one had time to think about the world or form their own opinions. Constantly bombarded with bright stimuli, all of their time was spent just attempting to keep up with what was going on their screens or parlor walls and no time was left over to think. All of this causes a loss of individuality in both of their societies. After everything is over and everything has burned, one of the largest ideas in Fahrenheit 451 is that redemption is possible.
One of the most important themes shared between Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E would be the possibility of redemption after everything has been destroyed because they’ll have the chance to start over. In WALL-E, the people had been living in space for seven hundred years because of the mistakes that had been made by their ancestors while they were up there. The plant that was brought up from earth represented the possibility of rebirth and new life, and that was what allowed them to go back to earth and begin to farm and start over. After everything had been destroyed because of humanity's mistakes, they still had the opportunity to come back and start again and learn from the mistakes of their ancestors. In Fahrenheit 451, Faber said to Montag on the topic of helping him, he said “‘The only way I could possibly listen to you would be if the fireman structure itself could be burnt’” (85). In another part of Fahrenheit 451, Granger actually spoke about the possibility of redemption, comparing humanity to a phoenix. “There was a damn silly bid called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up… But every time he burnt himself he sprang up out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again,” said Granger while sitting around a fire after the city had been destroyed. “‘And it looks like we’re doing the same …show more content…
thing, over and over, but we have one damn thing that the phoenix never had… We know all the damn silly things that we’ve done for a thousand years and as long as we know that… someday we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them’” (163). In both of these works, after everything was gone and broken they had the chance to rebuild it all, better and stronger. It is said that humanity must remember their past so they are not condemned to repeat it. Learning from the mistakes of the past, both of these peoples can rebuild their lives and redeem themselves in a better, stronger society. In the history of humanity, it has been a common underlying idea that we seek comfort.
Even Aristotle commented on it in his book “Peri Psyches,” which was the first book on human behavior. Paraphrased, the basic idea of what he said was that people seek pleasure and avoid pain. Seeking security is a theme in both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E because people draw comfort from what is nice and easy, and in an attempt to make people more comfortable, both of their societies removed all things that were not. In WALL-E, the people had to do no work themselves. Robots were at their sides at all moments to do everything for them. Even the captain didn’t know what had happened to earth, asking when he saw images of Earth, where the sky or the green grass was. All troubles and worries were removed from their lives, allowing them easy and security in that comfort. In Fahrenheit 451, despite the fact that her husband was clearly distressed, Mildred was more focussed about speaking about what the wallscreens had played that day. When Montag told Mildred, distressed and traumatised, what had happened that day, saying “‘We burnt a old woman with her books’”. Mildred responded by saying that “‘It’s a good thing the rug’s washable’” and “‘I went to Helen’s last night’” (49-50), completely disregarding what he said and changing the subject. She went on to speak about what she’d been watching and how she enjoyed going to Helen’s house and watching here parlour, all the while ignoring her
husband's call for help. Over the course of her life, the idea that comfort and security was most important was reinforced in her mind so much that at the first mention of trouble in her husband's life, she tries to change the subject. She never learned to deal with problems, because they were all eliminated from her life. In Fahrenheit 451, the wallscreens were constantly on everyone's mind and taking up all the room for every thought. Instead of taking care of her children when they were becoming rowdy, Mrs.Phelps, a friend of Mildred, said, “‘I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I pick them up when they come home three days a month; it’s not bad at all. You heave them into the ‘parlor’ and turn on the switch. It’s like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid’” (96). She didn’t take care of her children at all. Why would she when she could take the easy route and put them in front of the wallscreens? It would occupy all of their time, and it was so much easier than having to teach them everything herself. It was easy, having children, because all of the problems and discomforts that come with raising a child were removed. In another occasion In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty once spoke about this exact thing. “‘...Cram [the normal people] full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ that they feel stuffed, but absolutely brilliant with information…” Beatty said, trying to explin to Montag why their society was the way that it was. He contunued, saying “...and they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change’” (61). Books were dangerous to the ease and comfort that everyone enjoyed, because they opened their eyes to how terrible the world really was. They decided that it was better to leave people blind and innocent than seeing and scarred. Instead, they’d give them useless information or no information, simplifying everything just to make them more comfortable. Similarly, In WALL-E, all worries were removed and they had robots to cater to their every whim. Even walking was not a problem, because they had the hover chairs that went everywhere they wanted to go. Why would you need to know about what had happened to earth when it would only worry you? Instead everyone was blinded and left with an easy, comfortable influx of information where they had to make no choices but what flavor of food they wanted to have for lunch. Even what color they should turn their clothes was heavily suggested, and no one questioned it. Removing the troubles of people and giving them security in comfort is a theme in both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E because in both of their societies, the troubles were removed and replaced with easy, quick entertainment where no one needed to worry about anything. Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E share many similarities. Both are dystopian and have a main character who goes against the norm of society, though they do it in vastly different ways. With these similarities come common themes. Some of the themes that were shared by both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E were the loss of individuality caused by a lack of time to think, the possibility of redemption and starting over after everything goes down, and security because people draw comfort from the easy and so their societies removed all troubles for them.
Dystopias in literature and other media serve as impactful warnings about the state of our current life and the possible future. Two examples of this are in the book Fahrenheit 451 and the movie The Truman Show. Both works show the harmful effects of advancing technology and the antisocial tendencies of a growing society. The protagonists of these stories are very similar also. Guy Montag and Truman Burbank are the only observant people in societies where it is the norm to turn a blind eye to the evils surrounding them. Fahrenheit 451 and The Truman Show present like messages in very unlike universes while giving a thought-provoking glimpse into the future of humanity.
In the film Wall-E, produced by Disney and the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury illustrate similar themes of how technology can destroy a society. Through technology, humans do not directly communicate with one another, they only interact through screens. Through technology, humans are letting robots and other technology do everything for them, making humans seem inferior to the machines. These futuristic technology based societies are a warning to the modern society to control the human use and production of technology.
The novels Night and Fahrenheit 451 both carry messages about how society can be corrupted or destroyed. In the novel Night, the Jews do not listen to warnings about the incoming Germans, and most of them die in the Holocaust as a result, while in Fahrenheit 451, the citizens of that society have blind trust in authority and ignorance which eventually, at the end of the book, leads to the destruction of the society. Even though both books are written about different topics and of different times, they both share common messages about how to avoid the corruption and eventual destruction of a society.
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.
In most stories we enjoy, may it be from childhood or something more recent there is many times a theme that shows a clear hero and a clear villain. But ordinarily this is not the case in real life, there are few times that this is quite that simple. There are many sides to each story, and sometimes people turn a blind eye to, or ignore the opposing side’s argument. But if we look at both sides of a situation in the stories we can more clearly understand what is going on, moreover the villains in the book or play would seem more real, instead of a horrible person being evil for no reason, these two people have their own agenda may it be a ruthless vengeance or misplaced trust.
Imagine living in a world where everything everyone is the same. How would you feel if you were not able to know important matters? Being distracted with technology in order to not feel fear or getting upset. Just like in this society, the real world, where people have their faces glued to their screen. Also the children in this generation, they are mostly using video games, tablets, and phones instead of going outside and being creative with one another. Well in Fahrenheit 451 their society was just like that, dull and conformity all around. But yet the people believed they were “happy” the way things were, just watching TV, not thinking outside the box.
There are multiple examples of the degradation of human relationships found in Fahrenheit 451. These examples range from simple seashell radios, which are comparable to in-ear headphones, to a television set that spans over an entire wall, and also interacts with you as if it were human. If you take a look around you as you’re strolling down the street, you’ll notice the vast quantity of people that are plugged into the virtual realm, but disconnected from reality. Even today, you can notice the lack of communication in society.
Few people in the world choose to stand out instead of trying to be like everyone else. In Fahrenheit 451, most people are the same because no one ever thinks about anything and their world moves so fast. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, the author uses characterization to show the individuality and sameness of the characters.
...nd nature and the consequence of humankind overindulging in the superfluous luxuries that are beyond the necessities of food, shelter, clothing and fuel. Perhaps Wall-e is a message that the transcendentalist beliefs of Emerson and Thoreau should still be uplifted today, or maybe it was unintentional that the modern popularity of environmentally friendly movements encloses the fossil messages.
“We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.” ― Mary Renault. In many dystopian texts and films, there would always be a person who rebels and looks for change, like Jonas in the Giver,. In Pleasantville and Fahrenheit 451, the main characters are living in a dystopia and they rebel in diverse ways for a change.
The novels Ender's Game and Fahrenheit 451 take place in the future; the futures that the authors' have created are troubled and the world is approaching a disastrous end. Initially, Colonel Graff invites Ender to Battle School and tells him how important it is that he participates in the war. " 'The buggers may seem like a game to you now, Ender, but they damn near wiped us out last time. They had us cold, outnumbered and outweaponed. The only thing that saved us was that we had the most brilliant military commander we ever found. Call it fate, call it God, call it damnfool luck, we had Mazer Rackham.' " (p. 25) The future seems dark because the humans are trailing in bugger war. If the military could get another commander like Mazer Rackham, then the future would be brighter; Ender Wiggins trains to be the next Mazer Rackham. In Fahrenheit 451, people wanting to be entertained all the time causes the future to be mind numbing, bleak, and burnt. "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" (p. 141)
...very night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning”. In Fahrenheit 451, technology is so pervasive, so omnipresent, that it takes up all of everyone’s time. They are so immersed, they never have any time to think about anything, All of their free attention is sucked up by their addiction and reliance on technology, that they never think about their own happiness, or that of the people around them. They never stop to question their happiness, so they assume that they are happy. If one never thinks about it, then they automatically assume that it is okay. For instance, if one doesn’t think about an animal attacking them, then there must not be one, for if there was, then they’d be thinking about it. This is an instinctive trait in humans, and the Fahrenheit 451 government is using it to their advantage.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Fahrenheit 451 share two main characters that are seemingly lost in the unknown. Both Chief Bromden and Guy Montag are protagonist in the respective novels. These two characters both have a false sense of reality; however, this is the only reality they know. Bromden and Montag have little sense of what the world they live in has to offer. However things start to change for both of these men when they start to receive guidance from their counterparts, Randle McMurphy and Clarisse McClellan. Both of these characters become the catalyst for the freedom and liberation that Bromden and Montag come to find.
Ray Bradbury, from small town America (Waukegan, Illinois), wrote two very distinctly different novels in the early Cold War era. The first was The Martian Chronicles (1950) know for its “collection” of short stories that, by name, implies a broad historical rather than a primarily individual account and Fahrenheit 451 (1953), which centers on Guy Montag. The thematic similarities of Mars coupled with the state of the American mindset during the Cold War era entwine the two novels on the surface. Moreover, Bradbury was “preventing futures” as he stated in an interview with David Mogen in 1980. A dystopian society was a main theme in both books, but done in a compelling manner that makes the reader aware of Bradbury’s optimism in the stories. A society completely frightened by a nuclear bomb for example will inevitably become civil to one another. Bradbury used his life to formulate his writing, from his views of people, to the books he read, to his deep suspicion of the machines. . The final nuclear bombs that decimate the earth transform the land. The reader is left with the autonomous house and its final moments as, it, is taken over by fire and consumed by the nature it resisted. Bradbury used science fantasy to analyze humans themselves and the “frontiersman attitude” of destroying the very beauty they find by civilizing it.
Ray Bradbury uses motifs all throughout his novel Fahrenheit 451. Some include fire, mirrors, and being both dead and alive. Although, the motif that’s being focused on here is fire. Fire is used as a motif extensively in Fahrenheit 451. It is used to represent many subjects such as destruction, life, and warmth. It’s amazing how it can be changed from something so violent to something filled with hope.