Fahrenheit 451 Alienation Quotes

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

One of the biggest problems with the Fahrenheit 451 society is that everyone is the same. Almost no one has a different view or opinion on any topic. Clarisse is one of those few who view the world differently, because of the knowledge she has acquired from her family and books. “‘You are an odd one’(6)” Montag says this after meeting Clarisse for the first time. She asked him lots of questions, which is unusual for their society. She is very curious about the way he acted and why he did the things he did, which again is not common for the Fahrenheit 451 world. “‘Isn’t this show wonderful?’ cried Mildred. ‘Wonderful!’... ‘Millie, did you see that?’ ‘I saw it, I saw it!’(90)” Everyone's the same in their world. They all agree with each other and don’t have separate opinions. Everyone believes in the magic of the Parlor Wall TV’s. All this sameness can be credited to the burning of books. There is no religion and no opinions that are expressed through writing. The population has been corrupted and brainwashed with this idea of no conflict. But without individual thoughts people cannot give meaning to their lives. Clarisse on the other hand has knowledge that others do not have and this allows her to have individuality and to be truly happy. Discernibly, knowledge will allow others in the society to gain more individuality and to be

Happiness is something many people vie for but can't quite reach. It's something that is a result of fully developing one's potential. In Ray Bradbury's, Fahrenheit-451, the main character, Guy Montag, experiences internal conflicts such as his sudden realization of unhappiness and his insatiable home life.

The fear of the truth and admitting the truth is boldly seen in Fahrenheit 451, and then when it is revealed to the person, it results in brokenness and sorrow. Beatty is a prime example of avoiding the truth. Throughout the book, he hints at knowing the truth, but covers it up by burning books and peoples' opinions, and then building technology full of junk. Because of this, Beatty is left broken and sad, and eventually, he pays for it. When Montag was burning his house along with the books, he pointed the flame thrower at Beatty and stood there. He turned it on and flames ate Beatty up, then he thought to himself afterwards that "Beatty wanted to die. In the middle of crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty wanted to die. He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself, just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag, and the thought was enough to stifle his sobbing and let him pause for air" (116).

When one of Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Bowles, rages and leaves, Montag tells her, "'Go home.' Montag fixed his eyes upon her, quietly. 'Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you've had, go home and think of your damn Caesarean section, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it?'" (Bradbury 98). We see that the people of society are unempathetic and feel no emotion towards anything. Mrs. Bowles has had three of her husbands killed in a variety of ways, and doesn’t think anything of it. She feels no emotion towards the deaths of her husband's, and has killed a dozen babies (through abortion) without any further thought. Just like Mildred, she is representative of the rest of society. Society lacks humanity and doesn’t find any emotion in the deaths of others, even ones close to them. The people of society carry on like nothing happened when their loved ones are killed, and feel no feeling towards the deaths of others. As long as they are alive, that’s all that matters to them. They are self-centered and unempathetic, and feel little to no emotion towards

Knowledge makes our world go round. Knowledge is what makes us move further and revolve into something more. In the book “Fahrenheit 451” it states “they say you retain your knowledge even when you’re sleeping, if someone whispers in your ear”(Bradbury,89). Knowledge can never be taken from you. Even when you’re asleep your mind runs.

Fahrenheit 451 is a book that uses a lot of imagery in order to convey its message written by Ray Bradbury an American author and screenwriter who let himself through his imagination. Theis novel book is set in a futuristice American society where people are not allowed to read books. The story revolves around the main character, Montag, a fireman whose job it is to burn books, and the people that he meets and experiences that challenges him to his societaly beliefs. Fire is one image that is used as something that represents distraction. Sad,unhappy and not adventurous are a way to describe Montag.

In the world we live in, there are many secrets that the government hides from us. The novel Fahrenheit 451 by author Ray Bradbury shows the bad that the government has done to the society. An oppressed society represents a systematic mistreatment which can ruin the way the government works. Government control can lead to an oppressed society because they are censoring things from citizens. In the readings from this year, there are many examples of how an oppressed society can come from government control.

73). However, when Guy asks her if her 'family ' loves her with "all their heart and soul," (pg. 77) she is at a loss for words. Much like what happens when Clarisse asks Guy whether or not he is happy, this question forces Mildred to think strictly about what is real. It reminds her that deep down, she knows that her 'family ' consists of fictional characters who cannot harbor real emotions and thus, cannot requite her love for them. This is part of the awareness that she refuses to acknowledge, and she is stunned when Guy 's question catches her in her disguise. Unfortunately, she does not accept that she has a problem and proceeds to change the subject in response to his question. Towards the end of the book, when Mildred leaves the house as the firemen arrive to burn it, it can be inferred that technology does not have the effect on her that she desires, and that it cannot save her from her reality. One can recall that earlier in the story, an old woman chooses to stay in her house and burn along with her books, causing Guy to realize that books can help people to find in their lives a meaning that does not exist in his or Mildred 's. Mildred does not stay to burn with the parlor that she makes such a big deal out of throughout the course of the book. In this way, she inadvertently proves that the parlor and the other forms of technology she attaches herself to, do not provide her life with any

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There are a variety of distractions within Montag’s society that take away the opportunity for everyone to unite as a community. Montag’s wife, Mildred, is among many of the people who distract herself. She distracts herself by listening to seashells and watching TV shows in her TV parlor to entertain herself and take her mind off of anything provocative or unpleasant. The TV shows create a fantasy for her and she would rather watch them than have a conversation with Montag.

(AGG) Have you ever been obsessed with “stuff”? Yes, we all want the basic things such as the latest iPhone model or new sneakers. But in the novel Fahrenheit 451, the society takes this obsession to the next level. (BS-1) The society prioritizes their items. (BS-2) These items then replace the feelings society has for themselves and others in their life. (BS-3) But once they are separated from their items, the society acquires qualities that were once astray. (TS) Ray Bradbury depicts a key message in the novel Fahrenheit 451: that the society is consumed by “stuff” and have no care for the things that actually matter.

“The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud.” Only reason she was paying him attention was because the parlor walls were dead. “I’m not angry,” Montag said, surprised- Mildred shrieked with laughter in the hall.”

We sit on the subways and we ride on the busses, we drown the outside world with our headphones and our television sets, and we walk on the sidewalks brushing past one another just enough to avoid physical contact so that we can continue on our "merry" way towards our next destination. As a society, we beeline our way through life, weaving between moments of rendezvous and accidental concurrence, and we surround ourselves with instruments of interference in an attempt to pull ourselves out of the day-to-day life. As they say, art imitates life, and in a very sadistic way Fahrenheit 451 imitates what we are, and what we could become. Fahrenheit depicts a future where the common people surround themselves

It's not difficult to feel like an outcast when our world has formed a critical society ruled by the reigns of the status quo and its captive following. The novel Fahrenheit 451 depicts a futuristic dystopian society where main character Guy Montag struggles to maintain relationships in a world where people are too captivated by what's displayed on their screens to interact with others. Both Guy Montag and Holden Caulfield faced alienation from society because they refused to compromise their integrity in order to conform to society’s values. In “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, Holden ventures out into the adult world searching for a wholesome relationship but ends up realizing that adults are too preoccupied to provide him with