Fahrenheit 451 Analysis

Fahrenheit 451 is a classic and futuristic novel that depicts a future where humans suppress aspects of life they struggle to understand. Bradbury utilizes colorful imagery and biblical allusions in Fahrenheit 451 to enhance the dystopian text. The Characters Guy Montag and Captain Beatty in Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 live in a fast-pace, technology dependent culture that illustrates themes of isolation and emotional disconnection.

The book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury was about a fireman name Guy Montag. Montag does the opposite from what regular fireman do. He starts fires instead of putting them out. Books in Montag's society is forbidden to read and if caught reading the book would be set on fire. Instead of reading, that society watches large amounts of television as big as the wall and listens to the radio attached to their ears. It was not normal for pedestrians to talk and have meaningful conversations until Montag met a teenager name Clarisse. Clarisse was a strange girl that opened up Montag thoughts. She asked him about his work and what made him become a fireman. One question that really got him to think was the statement “Are you happy”(Bradbury 10). Montag believed that Clarisse was odd. She wasn’t like the norm of the society. She read books, walked the city like a pedestrian and, had meaningful conversations. After that encounter with Clarisse a number of events started to happen to him; his wife Mildred tried to commit suicide with prescription pills, a woman that hid books in her home decides to burn a live with her books, and Clarisse is killed in a car accident., With all these tragic events occuring, Montag tries to find a solution to this epidemic. The society has become controlled from power, a sense of censorship. Bradbury has shown his viewpoint of society through this novel.

In both Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Vonnegut’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the authors show major concerns about the future. Bradbury’s major concern is the misuse of technology that leads to the corruption of society while Vonnegut’s major concern is overpopulation and the lack of natural resources for the future. Both authors show concerns that can turn out to be real if people do not do anything about the environment and about technology.

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and ‘Fahrenheit 451’ are both dystopian novels published just after the end of the Second World War. ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell is set in ‘Airstrip One’; the ‘future’ England, which has become a totalitarian government that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as ‘thoughtcrime’. ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury however, is set in a future American society where books are outlawed and any found are burned. Both novels explore how governments can oppress their citizens by propaganda, such as the Big Brother posters everywhere, which are meant to give the citizens a feeling of protection, and also denying them the right to knowledge and individualism.

In Fahrenheit 451 information, independent thought, and freedoms are restricted. The citizens are not allowed to own, possess, or read books. They are kept busy by a plethora of distractions that prevent them from having any ideas of their own. As demonstrated by Mildred, people's attention spans are sufficiently shortened by the technology they are surrounded by, preventing them from seeking any information.

The dystopian society describes an imaginary society that is dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible. Montag is one of the victims in the dystopian society, that changes from a mindlessness servant to a book lover. The novel “Fahrenheit 451”, written by Ray Bradbury, tells the reader about a fireman name Guy Montag, who starts to realize that books are important because books give people knowledge, but when he tries to read or gained any information from books, he starts to face with many conflicts with his dystopian society. The protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, develops are he faces conflicts with this dystopian society during his hero’s journey, and this development correlates with the novel’s overall theme of censorship.

Although Fahrenheit 451 was written in 1953, somehow Ray BRadbury had a pretty good idea of how our world may end up. Fahrenheit 451 is written to be based in the future to our current day, but we’re showing early signs that could later grow into this “fiction” world. Bradley talks of common suicides and prescriptions, TV’s controlling our lives. It’s big about being taught to act and think like everyone else, and censorship. It really is lucky we haven’t gotten to those extremes that are depicted, but I fear we may soon.

Overall, I vastly enjoyed Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury's writing style is extremely descriptive and he uses massive amounts of imagery; from this, I was able to experience what is happening in the world around Montag--feeling the heat of the fire and hearing the overwhelming noise from the parlor walls. Additionally, Bradbury crafts stunningly complex, yet realistic characters. I only disliked two of the characters: Beatty and Mildred. On the other hand, I absolutely adore Montag, Clarisse, Faber, and Granger for their individuality and outlook on and knowledge of the world. Moreover, the plot uses a common idea, a dystopian society overrun by technology, and makes it unique and, therefore, compelling. Fahrenheit 451 is a brilliant novel, full

Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 introduces a new world in which control of the masses by the media, overpopulation, and censorship has taken over the general population. The individual is not accepted and the intellectual is considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common perception of family. The fireman is now seen as a flamethrower, a destroyer of books rather than an insurance against fire. Books are considered evil because they make people question and think. The people live in a world with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past; the population receives the present from television.

Literature is represented in Bernard Schlink’s ‘The Reader’, and Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ through a character’s understanding of its cognitive value that is influenced by certain ideas, thoughts, and experiences, that exist within fiction and nonfiction. ‘Fahrenheit 451’ is a dystopian novel, that entails a futuristic world administered by an oppressive, volatile and tyrannical government, on the verge of war. The novel presents a society that appears to have vacated all its love of books and the need for any independent knowledge. On the other hand, ‘The Reader’ opens up in a post-war Germany when Michael, a fifteen-year-old boy, engages in an affair with a 36-year-old woman, Hanna, who abruptly exits his life, only to turn up in court, years later, accused of the mass murder of Jewish women that were locked in a burning church while she undertook the profession as a concentration camp guard. By then, Michael, is a law student who observes the trial and realises that Hanna is, in fact, an undisclosed illiterate, a detail that has exceedingly affected her actions in the past and which gravely undermines her position in court during her trial. Hanna’s late understanding of the holocaust, through her reading the prominent books by Holocaust survivors, such as Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel, and the histories of the camps, show her keen need for understanding the historic literature, after which she is able to come to terms with taking responsibility of the role she played

In school, people crave acceptance. Putting themselves at a lower expectation to meet the needs of another. Every year, students try to pick classes that could put them in the same classes as their friends. Last year, when signing up for classes, I was hoping to get into similar classes with my friends. After telling them about some of the classes I was interested in, my ideas were immediately shut down. My friends, and even my parents told me that, the ideas I interpreted as informational, were insufficient and would get me nowhere in life. They told me I should pick something to help advance my career in the future. If my parents told me to choose something else, who was I to disagree? I felt like I was stuck in a box, leading to get out, but nobody was around to hear me. So I ended up switching my classes, and moving down some levels to be with friends. My conformity caused me to lower my own standards and lowers the expectations of those around me. Though i faced consequences by conforming, there are several examples that examine the same concepts of conformity at a more extreme level in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Excessive censorship from a higher authority most likely leads to conformity from subordinates.

When readers first read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, they might think Bradbury is exaggerating the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the characters, when he is actually showing what society is becoming. In the dystopian society of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, everyone is obsessed with technology, and becomes desensitized to violence, emotions and death. Whether the characters are talking casually about death, or being suicidal themselves, most of them think this behavior is ok and only a select few think it is wrong. Although Bradbury sets the story in the distant future, his goal is to make the readers aware of some faults, such as desensitization of the people’s emotions in today’s world, through his use of characterization of Mildred, who is suicidal, symbolism of the Mechanical Hound, it’s only function is to kill, and his various uses of irony, such as the firemen destroying houses.

Do firemen start a fire or turn it off? This was a question every reader had while reading the book” Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. The story takes place in the future where some ideas are misunderstood like preferring ignorance instead of knowledge. The society Montag lives in don’t like books or nature, they prefer fire and technology like his wife Mildred and his friend Beatty. At the beginning, Montag was equal with the society about loving fire, however, he got enlightened by Clarisse and Faber and is thirsty for knowledge as the story goes which shows that knowledge enlightens people’s mind if they choose to have it.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a fireman named Guy Montag who loves his job of burning books since, they are illegal and houses of the owners of the books. When he meets his neighbor Clarisse, she made him realize that he is unhappy with his life and he does not love his wife, Mildred. Then, Montag starts to question why books are illegal and why do people have them. Throughout the novel, Montag is on the run from his censored society, he finds new friends that love books, when a jet bomb hits the city, Montag and his book friends go back to look for survivors and to rebuild the society.

In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 we see the citizens living with a totalitarian set of rules and customs, a society with rules and customs that are not so different from the one talked about in “The Declaration of Independence” when the Thirteen Colonies were under King George III’s reign. Both the Colonies and the citizens of Fahrenheit 451 had struggles at the hand of their respective governments, facing death and injustice without so much as a second thought from the government.