Fahrenheit 451 Distraction Quotes

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

The freedom to think is often taken for granted among civilization. What people do not realize is that their freedom of thought can be controlled with enough deceit and manipulation. Sometimes, most people do not even know that the way they think is being controlled. This fact is proven in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The book peers into a dystopian society led by a corrupt government. Total mental and political control is what the government wants, while freedom of thought is what they do not want. These goals are achieved through means that are subtle, and obvious: manipulation through social media, through legal restrictions, and through the destruction of books.

“We need not to be let alone.”(Bradbury 49) is one of many important lines in Fahrenheit 451, but yet, that is exactly what everyone in the city is. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, many characters separation from the rest of their society is a prominent attribute throughout the book. Three minor characters who perfectly exemplify alienation in their society are Clarisse, Mildred, and Granger. Clarisse epitomizes the role of a “loner” of sorts by doing things like eschewing herself from her peers at lunch. The teachers at her school find her odd for her questions like “why.” On the other hand, Mildred is the average member of the utopian-like society in Fahrenheit 451. Her being the average member and still being “alone” in a sense

Topic sentence: In Fahrenheit 451 the author, Ray Bradbury, comments on society’s complacency to let people kill themselves through how normal the world around Montag accepts people dying.

In Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, books are a very big complication in their world. Everyone believes there is something offensive about all books, so no one is allowed to learn from them. Throughout the book Clarisse, Beatty, and Guy discover the true significance behind books. The true significance behind books is that you can learn so much more from them than just going on the internet and watching videos or searching stuff on Google, and it allows you to use your imagination when you are reading a story.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a fireman named Guy Montag who has been burning books for ten years. However, once he meets a 17-year old girl named Clarisse and a professor who tells him about the value of books, he realizes that he would rather give up his job than burn books. Unfortunately, there are many individuals in Montag’s society who have differing mentalities about books. The individuals in Montag’s society are distracted by outside forces that prevent them from forming and maintaining a stable community.

In Ray Bradbury’s novel, “Fahrenheit 451”, he creates a futuristic society impacted by censorship, where citizens are forced to conform to the government’s manipulation. In this society, all forms of literature became a dangerous gateway to knowledge and are regarded as signs of controversy. Books have been outlawed, and thus the human mind, individuality and thought have all become a blurred existence. Society has become senseless. Merely a place where a fireman’s profession is burning books and any houses found with books kept inside. The novel’s protagonist, Montage, also a fireman, is the narrator of the given quote above. Through the repetitive word “burning”, Bradbury emphasizes Montage’s sense of revelation. Montage realizes he must

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind.” (Bradbury 58) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in a futuristic dystopian society; books are burned to restrict knowledge from citizens. Guy Montag, the protagonist, is a fireman who burns the books. Montag is taken by surprise when he meets Clarisse McClellan as he is walking home from work. Clarisse is an anomaly in the society; her stark contrast in comparison to the rest of the world forces Montag to question himself. From there, a rebellion spread that sparks a change in Montag and in society. In his novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury constructs the idea that censorship of knowledge causes citizens to discontinue questioning

Within a society where individual thought is shamed and frowned upon, Guy Montag is easily seen as an outcast. Due to the fear of being outcasted alongside Guy or perhaps it is the fear of falling to the same fate of Clarisse, he is avoided and even disliked by his own wife. He begins to feel detached once his daily repetitive routine becomes challenged by Clarisse who asks simple questions such as, “Are you happy?” (Bradbury, 4) This creates a level of paranoia that someone will discover this new mindset of Guy’s and the heresy that will follow.

Conformity, known as working in unison with authorities serves an essential role in making the global community function through policies and set of laws that are regulated upon a vast population. John F. Kennedy, an American politician sheds a different light on conformity than what it is commonly understood as through his famous quote, "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." This quote reveals the increasing control conformity has taken on one's mind, promoting the importance of being accepted by others rather than accepting one's own individual personality and capabilities. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury demonstrates conformity as a mask that hides one from the raw inner soul, abolishing one's freedom to think

Clarisse changes the way Montag thinks and makes him see society differently. The technique used in this quote is the repetition of the word happy. By emphasizing the word happy, it shows how big of a deal this is to Montag to realize that this is missing from his life, Clarisse influences Montag for the greater good by ideas like this.. This really shows how Montag begins to think and speak more like Clarisse by questioning society rather than going along with everything everyone tells him, she really is beginning to change

Montag from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, in my opinion, is ignorant. I think this because in the book, Montag is always following the crowd. In part three, Granger says, “I’ve been running ever since. Do you want to join us, Montag?” Montag immediately replies with, “Yes.” He gives no thought as to where he would be going, what he would be doing, or anything more. He hadn’t even known these people before stumbling upon them, yet he is so quick to trust and follow them like a lemming. With the thought of a lemming in mind, Montag also just follows the crowd without a second thought. In part two, Faber is talking to Montag and says, “The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings

In an indifferent society that only tracks, copies, and pretends, diversity is unthought of. However, Guy Montag, the protagonist in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, is not like the rest of his society. Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic time where independent thinking is outlawed. Bradbury’s novel represents a time and place in which individuals who want to learn and grow are thought of as uncivilized. These “uncivilized” people are being thrown into insane asylums because of their desire towards knowledge. Policemen are called to the scene if someone is in possession of a book. Firemen are then instructed to scorch all the books and sometimes even the entire house if it seems it is a threat to society. Guy Montag, the

Why does Beatty quote Montag from books that he has burned? Why would a well-educated, well-read man despise knowledge? (See p. 169-172 of Bradbury’s Afterword for more insight on this)

Introduction: The world we the people have created could be ruining average society forever. This quote i found i thought would be a great way to start my essay on Fahrenheit 451. This quote is the start of one of the main character named Montag becoming a rebellious person. The quote says “I don’t think he knows which book i stole. But how do i choose a substitute?... He’ll guess we’re an entire library here” page 72. Montag is talking about the bible and doesn’t want to get caught so he’s planning to lie to beatty about it. My theme statement i have made to connect with this book explains that In Fahrenheit 451 the theme is that learning the truth of society may make you want to rebel.