Conflict In Fahrenheit 451

Human beings are naturally curious. We are always in search of better ideas, and new solutions to problems. One of a basic idea of Indonesia has been freedom of thinking and a free flow of ideas. But in some societies, governments try to keep their people ignorant. Usually, this is so governments can keep people under control and hold on to their power. In trying to keep people from the realities of the world, these oppressive governments can end up damaging or even destroying their society.

But he never realized that he was not happy until Clarisse asked him if he was happy. Clarisse not only shows him into another reality that could exist, but that shows him the reality that had existed and what should exist. Like reading books should be legal and so should stay up late at night talking or watching TV as a family. Clarisse shows and gives Montag the ability to interpret his own world. Once Montag starts to interpret the world he lives, he begins to take little steps toward books and has a couple of sudden urges of wanting to rescue the book. He slowly starts to realize that a man is behind every book and has put hard work behind it. By destroying a book, Montag is destroying history created by another man, especially when he put so much work into the book. Montag notices that many people care for their television families instead of caring for their actual families, like Montag’s wife or even Mrs. (). Montag even notices that all the firemen look similar, like dark-hair and unshaven, mirror images of Montag. She influences Montag so much that Montag ends up becoming a human being who can think, feel, and analyze from the automan he used to

Montag feels at the begining of the novel that the communication is greatly lacking in society. People are becoming very ignorant and turning reallife realationships aside. They now turn to their "tv families". One victim of neglecting real life realtionships is Mildred, Montag's wife. Montag truley hates this. "Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (2.125). Montag hopes that his wife and him can rejoin their connection through the books, but is sadly wrong and must find some one else, Faber.

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the society that is currently present is in a very difficult state. They do not know how to handle themselves and they are self-dependent on what the government has to offer. In addition, the people in this society are not able to communicate with others and as a result they have become self-reliant on technology. This makes them unable to think and get ideas because the government does not allow it. Ultimately, they are faced with the increasing power of the government and its ability to take advantage of this society. The three major issues in the novel are that their society relies on the government for their decisions, they use technology an overwhelming amount, and they did not have the option

On page 7 Bradbury writes “But I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.” He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable. “And if you look”---she nodded at the sky---”there’s a man in the moon” (Bradburry 7). He hadn’t looked for a long time.” Montag has been brainwashed by the government to think that TV and electronics are everything. This makes Montag start to understand what has been forgotten in life. He is starting to understand that he doesn’t want to do what the government is making him do. Later in the novel Montag gets stuck in predicament. Page 48 notes, “You weren’t there, you didn’t see,” he said. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a women stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing” (Bradburry 48). Montag is forced to kill the innocent women because she is in possession of the books. He is starting to have rebellious thoughts. When Montag finally starts understanding that the government is being unlawful, he acts on the situation. On page 115, Bradbury types, “You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both. Goodbye, Captain. And he stumbled along the alley in the dark” (Bradburry 115). Beatty and the government have been forcing Montag to burn books, houses, even people to show power. But Montag realizes it

He is curious and fearless in his quest for knowledge. Otherwise, Montag would have never taken such a big risk in order to find out if poems stir up something inside of a neighbor. Montag is one of the few people in society that presents any sort of human emotion. Shocked was the only way to describe him after hearing of Clarisse’s death, whereas Mildred refused to talk about dead people. Gazing at the woman who burned himself, Montag was horrified whereas the other fireman continued merrily. An ability to think for himself was also prevalent in his personality. Considering the amount of influence the media plays on F.451’s society, Montag could have just as easily been wrapped up in the mob mentality of the evil in literature. Instead, he followed his heart, which constantly told him what he was doing was wrong. It allowed him to understand the wrong in burning books, ultimately aiding him to escape.

Firstly, Montag faces the conflict of having to burn down a house with a woman in it, which led him to thinking that something important may be hidden within the books that could be different from what he has learning in this new version of society; Montag becomes more curious through this event and starts to wonder. Eventually, the protagonist is so deeply engrossed in his curiosity that “his hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest” (Bradbury 34). This quote illustrates

Montag at the beginning of the book is a person that you could love and hate. Montag was a person who loved his job as a firefighter. To Montag he got pleasure out of burning the books. One of Montag's favorite things from burning the books was he would put a marshmallow and put it on a stick and roast it.When Montag's done and goes home he goes to bed with a smile on his face. Then everything changes once he meets Clarisse.

Montag is someone who is shy and keeps his thoughts to himself, but thinks many things. He shows that he is distracted instead of being happy throughout the book. At the time, he was walking home from work and was looking at Clarisse. Clarisse is a girl who would roam the streets and was also Montag's neighbor. She walks over to Guy and they start to have a conversation while walking to their houses. They discussing if talking about to see if Montag is really happy or if he was lying. She keeps questioning him. Bradbury explains “He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as true state affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run across the lawn with the mask and the way

15. Faber is critical of himself because he feels guilty for having said nothing when this society began to change. He felt that there was a time when he had an opportunity to stops things from happening, from books being destroyed because he was a great mind, but he said nothing for the very reason the society changed- not to upset anyone or the balance of things. He is very pessimistic about the world. He is very against how the society lives and how programmed everyone is. No one cares about learning information anymore and living in the real world. Everyone is hypnotized by technology. He is angered that the people can’t realize what they are missing in their lives. Montag is only willing to become Montag’s mentor because Montag coerces him. Montag shows him a copy of the Bible and offers it to him. Then he starts to tear pages out of it if Faber will not agree to help him. I also think Montag wants to help Montag all along because he sees this as his chance to reclaim justice of these books and take revenge on the government. Faber sees that Montag is very similar to him in the way that they both want to read books and learn the real meanings of life, and stand up for the use of books.

When Montag meets Clarisse, it begins his change and desire to understand. With her curious and questioning nature, it inspires Montag to do the same. Montag had never met anyone who had questioned why something works instead of how it works. Clarisse is the opposite of Mildred. She is open-minded and observant of her world while Millie is closed off, almost an empty shell of a human. Captain Beatty, the head of the fire department, is a character that is full of contradictions. He is a fireman, who burns literature, although he has a great knowledge of it. He seems to, at one point, cared very deeply about the books he now burns without discretion. He uses the books that he calls treacherous weapons and traitors against Montag in his own argument. Beatty’s foil is the Professor Faber, who wages war with the Captain for possession of Montag’s mind and actions, which Faber inevitably wins in a flame of glory, quite literally when Montag lights Captain Beatty on fire, murdering him.

Surprisingly the more and more I read into each tablet I began to understand the ways or writing so much better than I did within my first passages I read. One section that did confuse me as I read on more past then what was given as an assignment, was the darkness passage he took. He would walk for miles on end not knowing where he was going or what it was leading towards. The half breads scorpions explains to him he cannot pass as a mortal that he would never survive, however after hours of hot darkness he then approaches onto a light in a distance. The closer he gets the brighter it gets. This light then ends up beings a forest of some kind. He steps into a beautiful garden filled with fruit, rubies, and other jewels. Past the riches he

Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, differentiates from the cinematic form of the novel directed by François Truffaut in numerous ways. Bradbury states, “The movie was a mixed blessing. It didn’t follow the novel as completely as it should have. “It’s a good movie: it has a wonderful ending; it has a great score by Bernard Hermann. Oskar Werner is wonderful in the lead. But Truffaut made the mistake of putting Julie Christie in two roles in the same film, which was very confusing, and he eliminated some of the other characters: Clarisse McClellan and Faber the Philosopher and the Mechanical Hound. I mean, you can’t do without those!” Other than the characters in the story, including the score

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is one man attempting to turn his society upside down. After discovering for himself the injustice of his society as it shuns all literature, Montag relentlessly fights to fix this corruption and endures large amounts of persecution in the process (Bradbury). Meanwhile, in his autobiography, Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass recounts his past as a single slave doing his best to right the evils of southern slaveholders. Although one takes place in a fantasy and one during 19th century America, both works portray individuals going against the unjust grain of their societies, and persevering through extreme opposition in the process. After escaping the grip of slavery, Douglass recounts his life story to a curious, yet most-likely privileged audience in an intelligent and revealing manner. Throughout his narrative, Douglass praises the surprising resilience of the human spirit even in the midst of constant hardship.

In the beginning, Montag is a person that burns books and makes a living off of. Montag is a husband of Mildred. Montag becomes angry towards his wife because of actions. When Montag finds his wife has overdosed on sleeping pills. He becomes worried about there