Alienation in Fahrenheit 451

The people of Fahrenheit 451 are so engrossed with technology that they avoid physical contact, and even conversations with other people. Montag is alienated from Mildred, by the three T.V. walls she had set up between them; which she isolates herself with her fictitious T.V. family. Alienation slowly affects Montag. It was first noticed by the firehouse’s mechanical hound, Montag then begins to lose interest in playing games with his firemen coworkers. He was completely alienated from the firemen after they got a call and the firemen and Montag ended up in front of Montag’s own house, and they had to burn it. Some quotes from the book even support the idea of the topic. “I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn’t it?” said Clarisse McClellan “Social to me means talking to you about things like this.” Guy Montag said"I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I

Everything in this life goes by fast. The society in everyday life and the one in Fahrenheit are becoming more similar as time goes by. The people we meet and talk to impact our lives in many different ways. In our society and in Fahrenheit 451, connections to others determine the way we live our lives affecting those who are still living after our death.

Ray Bradbury created the novel Fahrenheit 451 as a way to admonish future generations against social and economic trends that would emerge during the twentieth century.

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that should be taken very seriously. While the novel is fiction, something very similar happened about 50 years ago. 50 years ago, Germany had a leader that was evil. When I say evil, I mean it. He was very manipulative, and killed many people because of their religion. On top of that, he burned books, so that people would follow his beliefs and not have a mind of their own. Fahrenheit 451 is similar because of the book burnings, that restricted creativity, and individuality. The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is when your creativity is restricted, it causes horror and pain.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel published in 1950. The novel takes place in the futuristic American society where technology dominates in people’s lives. This is an era of prosperous technological advances, but people’s life quality is bad. The people live their life without knowledge, wisdom, and self-awareness. People are not critical because all books are banned, and illegal. The people think the same thing and they look alike also. The government uses propaganda to manipulate the people. Fear is the effective method the government uses to control them.

In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury tells the story of a dystopic world where books are burned by firemen because they are prohibited. By presenting this, he makes a point on how books are essential and at the same time warning readers. He was trying to say,” If this happens, then this will happen.” He visualized this society in this book, based on his society, which is parallel to our society now. In the dystopic Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury examines his society at the time, and he admonishes readers about possible aspects of future societies, especially mass media, technological advancement, and peoples’ mental health.

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel of little happiness. Society as a whole has become content with watching television and wasting away their lives, while a few individuals ponder the true meaning of life and happiness. Bradbury throughout the book depicts what our world could become, and almost sends a warning to the reader on how to avoid this unfriendly fate.

He also meets Clarisse right before that, which introduces him to the fact that he is not happy and points out how flawed his society is. This causes him to have a sort of identity crisis which brings in the man vs self conflict. Another man vs society problem that goes with the main conflict occurs at the same time. During the book, especially after meeting Clarisse, Montag develops a pronounced hatred of technology. This is shown in Montag’s metaphors applying to technology throughout the book. Most commonly, he refers to technology as undesirable animals/objects. For example, when Mildred is getting her stomach pumped by “the black cobra”(12) and Montag refers to Faber’s two-way radio as a “green bullet”(112) and a “gnat tickling his ear"(88). Also when he burns his house, he makes it a priority to burn his wife’s three TV-walls. Finally, there is a man vs man conflict between Montag and Beatty. Once Montag is “sick” after the burning of the old woman’s house and Montag’s stealing of the Bible from her house, this reveals later Montag’s secret stash of books. But Montag plainly gives away to Beatty that he took a book

At the very beginning, parlor walls affecting Mildred had a substantial effect on Montag. After Clarisse mentions how Montag doesn’t love anybody, Montag starts thinking. “Well wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it. Literally, not just one but three,”(44). Montag thinks, referring to the parlor walls.

Books written about a dystopian society come as a warning, one that we should all take. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was written in the 1950’s. Somehow, the books warning is becoming all too real today. Fahrenheit 451 is written as a warning that society is becoming so warped, with people getting everything they want, that happiness will only come from physical items instead of experiences or getting dissolved into a good story. In the novel, Montag is living in a society that follows this idea of gaining happiness from physical items and books are illegal to posses. There is no typical family who love each other, play together and are happy. Instead happiness is confusing and Montag realises that no one is actually happy and that he himself is unhappy. Because of this, Montag leaves and sets out to find happiness in illegal literature instead of physical items. This goes to show that happiness is something humans need and desire. Without proper forms of happiness in experiences of love, travel, literature, etc, a society becomes monotonous and dependent on money. If society is dependent on materialism, human relationship and intellectual pursuits will be at a deficit.

Page 69, when Mildred was referring TV as her family, "My family is people, they tell me things." Mildred said things that connect in today's world like lots people would rather be watching TV, on cell phones, or playing video games. Montag and Mildred doesn't have much communication he even stated on page 78, "I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls." Montag and Mildred relationship is growing apart with each other especially because of her 'family'. People in the novel have lost touch with the world and would rather be with electronics than family and friends. While in today's world people support each other and enjoy times with friends and

The book Fahrenheit 451 is placed in a dystopian society. The author is Ray Bradbury and the point of this book is to make us take time and to slow down and enjoy what we have around us because someday it might not be there and to think about censorship. He is wanting us to be thankful for what we have around us that is good and that we might take for granted sometimes. Ray Bradbury also makes us take time to think about what symbolism he is using in the book to represent certain things in the book. Technology now is getting way out of hand to where we think that it is a necessary need to want and we think that we need it and in all reality we really don’t. It’s making us feel like we have to rely on it and that we can’t do much for ourselves. And how bad censorship can be to our society.

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel because of censorship, propaganda, lack of freedom, and technology. Citizens do not have meaningful conversations, think independently, or enjoy time with friends. Instead they are overloaded with an excessive amount of technology and media in order to keep them from thinking on their own. The lack of independent thinking in the society is depriving the citizens of what should be granted to them

When you think about it only a few years ago people used to lie down in their beds and read novels. In the Book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury we can see a lot of things with the society. Bradbury notices what has been going on in the world. Bradbury's also use of symbolism throughout the novel makes the book moving and powerful by using symbolism to reinforce ideas. The society in Fahrenheit has many similarities along with many differences of our modern day America society.

Watt focuses on the problems in the city that seem almost ridiculous and unrealistic to us in the modern world. For example, teenagers playing hit and run on the highway with pedestrians, or being burned to death over books! It seems as if the people in Fahrenheit 451 are slowly losing their humanity and are putting their own happiness before others. “Modern man actively pursues destructiveness in order to compensate for a loss of responsibility for his future,” which matches the world of Fahrenheit 451 easily (Watt 72). Because nobody has a future in which they desire or work for, they just distract themselves till they become destructive towards people or objects. These examples of humans expressing no mortality proves that my thesis, people are losing their