Fahrenheit 451 Culture Quotes

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.

While Montag is on the run in the streets, he hears through a Seashell a command for everyone to look for him, and his mind pictures a very realistic image: “He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of his face” (132). He pictures “thousands on thousands” of people conforming to the will of an upper government, no questions asked. They all will do exactly as told, but something about the image seems especially unsettling. The word “gray” was repeated four times and connected to every phrase describing them. This color is often associated with blandness and lack of unique color, and

Often in literature a character who is alienated from society. In Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse McClellan is alienated from her society. Clarisse is alienated through her abnormal values, her family’s values, and by not attending to society’s norm. This can show, through her alienation, her society’s morals and values.

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” -Yehuda Bauer. In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray bradbury, Montag did not stand by and observe the corruption of the government, but instead took matters into his own hands and rebelled for what he believed in. A person is able to rebel when they cannot think their own way, when they are forced to do something, and the uneasiness of being unsafe.

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.

How does life make you feel...Are you depressed? Are you lonely? Are you happy? Are you stressed. Are you okay? Are you giving up? Are you living a life that you don’t love or are you proud about who you are? Montag thinks that he is happy, but he doesn't find out that he really isn't until Clarisse truly shows him. Honestly, he is just living a life that doesn’t show him what life is really all about. He is missing out on so many moments because he isn’t allowed to read or feel emotion. Ray Bradbury wants us to know that sometimes there is no such thing as a Utopia...in the world, or in society where we live. Everyone has hard times, but what if they just don’t stop, what if they continue until the day you die?

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury gives several sections of the book where he hints clues about our future world. “ ‘Now,’ said Mildred, ‘my 'family' is people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!’ (Bradbury 69)”. This quote on page 69 is said by Mildred and she is talking to Montag about how books won't achieve him any pleasure. Mildred explains that her family is the television and she finds it most important. Undoubtedly, the author is hinting something here because this quote is talking about preferences and his preference is included. The author hints here that if the world we are living in, turns into an electrical technology-filled planet, no one will ever no the old "stuff" that were good once upon a time. People

“ Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons,

Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books and follows all of the rules. He likes his job “It was a pleasure to burn” (pg 3). Montag enjoys his job so deeply that he “grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame” (pg 4). He follows the ideas of society, does not question the government, and tries not to be the odd one out. When he meets his new neighbor, Clarisse, she gets him to think about himself as a fireman and says “So many people are. Afraid of firemen” (pg 6), which tells us that firemen have mediocre popularity among the public.

In the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray. Bradbury, books are the root of all the problems that occur. In this quote Montag is expressing to Mildred on why there’s a need for books, and the quote also explains the warfare that will continuously happen all through the story, “‘Is it true, the world works hard and we play, is that why we’re hated so much?’” (70) Throughout the story Montag becomes more and more aware of the world around him.

In a society where firefighter’s purposely burn books, anything is possible. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a firefighter, Guy Montag, follows the rules and expectations of burning books. The job of a firefighter is to burn books because they are banned in the society Montag is a part of. Throughout the book Montag meets various characters that create curiosity and help him gain knowledge about the rules of his society. In the end, Montag is able to develop his own opinions and views about the rules he is following.

In this society, books are banned, they are not to be read or owned. Anyone who is caught with a book or accused of having books is punished by firemen. Firemen do not put out fire instead, they start it; their job is to burn books and anyone who owns them, “burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan” (Bradbury 3). The government justifies their reaction towards books arguing that they are protecting people’s happiness. According to their argument, the knowledge that people gain from books could lead to controversy. Consequently, by destroying books, people are relieved from thinking or arguing, “We stand against …those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought” (Bradbury 30). In order to remain in control, they have to brainwash people on a daily basis, masking their true intentions in the name of people’s happiness. Gabriela Wolk argues that “Fahrenheit 451, pointing towards the true power of the written word” (Wolk 11). Basically, books are considered “a loaded gun” (Bradbury 28) that would threaten the government power and for that, they must be

This passage confuses me because he had never before referred to Clarisse as a friend, they had only know each other for a couple weeks at the most. Montag’s wife was also not dying in the book so that also didn’t make sense to me at all. The person that could have been his friend would likely never be his friend because where would they have never met if they weren’t already friends. Going along with the book it sounds like making new friends and talking a lot is abnormal so it would have drawn suspicion if they did talk and become friends. I find it abnormal that he would remember someone from a year ago and to trust the man he didn't know. Why would he do so? For all he could have known was that the old man was undercover and trying to trick him into something stupid. You shouldn’t trust someone like that when you’re only met once before.

Austin Cline also wrote, “Books are merely the means by which a message is communicated; eliminating them may slow the growth of the message, but it certainly can’t eliminate the message itself.” I strongly agree with this belief because destroying books can never truly stop the growth and spread of a message.

Some people do not realize that they affect the education of their children by banning certain books. The banning of books is banning the author's right to free speech which can hinder the education of Americans. In schools teachers have to worry about what readings they present to their students because they could have any parent coming after them for exposing their children to “heinous” or “bad” things when all it truly is, is literature used to broaden