Fahrenheit 451 & Equilibrium

He meets his soon-to-be mentor that way, named Faber, who helps him block out any further government propaganda and assists him with remembering and understanding books. Montag changes as an individual from

In Ray Bradbury’s novel, censorship is implemented in an odd way through the dystopian society. Firemen in today’s time are ordinarily known for “those who put out fires,” but the role of firemen in this story is completely different. They are the enforcers of the censorship law and are called when there is a suspect known hiding books in their home. Montag who is the prime character and fireman starts the story with a quote saying, “It was a pleasure to burn” (3). This confirms that firemen in the dystopian society seem to take their jobs as book burners with satisfaction. When Guy Montag awakes in the novel and questions the reasons why books are considered dangerous and to be burned. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag had said, “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” He realizes that if someone dies for books they must be doing something right.

First of all, Montag faces government censorship over society’s citizens, which changes him to become a courageous character, and he learns that because the government has taught people to take what they have for

Faber changed Montag from being a confused man, to an aware, thinking and analyzing person that is deferent from the society he lives in. after killing Beatty, the chief fireman at the station who has read many books and memorized most of them. Montag seeks Faber 's help again, he was confused did not know where to do to escape from the mechanical hound that was running after him. Faber tells Montag to go to the forest, where Montag rested and thought about what happened and whether he did the right thing or not. At the forest, Montag meets a group of men that was lead by Granger; an author who is the leader of a group that hopes to re-populate the world with books.

According to German author, Heinrich Heine, “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” This quote relates to the book burning and the consequences in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In Fahrenheit 451, the government bans all printed materials, and the firefighters are responsible to enforce the book-banning law. The firefighters’ job in this dystopian, emotionless, egalitarian society is to burn the houses that contain books. This society depends heavily on technology, where “The Family” is an interactive television wall. Guy Montag is a well-respected senior fireman; however, he starts to question the government after meeting the radical Clarisse. He starts to read confiscated books and decides

One of the major changes in this new society is depersonalization, the loss of self and intimacy. After an alarm is sent to the firehouse for a home possessing books, Montag travels to the location with the other firemen. He then discovers that this is his own house, and his wife Mildred turned him in to the firemen. Then, Beatty, the head fireman and Montag’s acquaintance, forces him to burn it down himself. After doing so, he stands outside and watches his house burn. He ruminates, “A great earthquake had come with fire and leveled the house and Mildred was under there somewhere and his entire life was under there…” (112). Despite some of these things that are a part of Montag’s life not being the most pleasant, they are still a large part of who he was. As the house is being burnt down, Montag realizes that everything about him is being destroyed with it. Without his house, Montag has nothing familiar left, and registers that his whole life is essentially gone. After killing Beatty as revenge for forcing him to destroy his home, Montag starts his escape. He stops at the house of Faber, an ex-professor he met prior to the events of the story, for help. In shock, Montag voices his wonder about how he ended up in this situation. He

In our world, firemen fight fires. In “Fahrenheit 451, “the firemen burns books. They do this to fight ideas and to keep their society safe from disruptive influences.

Introduction “Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die” said Franklin D. Roosevelt, a former president of the United States of America. However, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a book about a about a futuristic society in which firemen illegally burn books. At first, Montag enjoyed his job as a fireman burning books along with the homes of their owners. However, later in the book Montag questions his job and the purpose of his life.

Fire is an ever-present concept in Fahrenheit 451. In the society of the dystopian world the fire is a negative force that destroys the houses and banned books of the offender. The name of the book is derived from the temperature at which books burn. The burning books become a metaphor for the anti-intellectual violence of the novel. It eradicates every cultural article in which are books. It is used as a pressure of the government to form the citizens the way the government wants the world constructed. "The core of the novel rests in the readers ability to share Guy 's slow struggle toward consciousness, to move from

Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, is based in a futuristic time where technology rules our everyday lives and books are viewed as a bad thing because it brews free thought. Although today’s technological advances haven’t caught up with Bradbury’s F451, there is a very real danger that society might end up relying on technology at the price of intellectual development. Fahrenheit 451 is based in a futuristic time period and takes place in a large American City on the Eastern Coast. The futuristic world in which Bradbury describes is chilling, a future where all known books are burned by so called "firemen." Our main character in Fahrenheit 451 is a fireman known as Guy Montag, he has the visual characteristics of the average

One of the most significant heroic actions taken in this novel is when Montag begins saving books. In Montag’s society, books are banned for all people for all purposes. The firemen believe that books provide ideas and promote knowledge which serves as a threat to the government. Ultimately, the goal of the firemen is to destroy the books to create a society without conflict. Montag stores the books inside his home without his wife, Mildred, knowing. With Professor Faber’s influence, he begins to read and discover the truth about many things. Although reading is dangerous, Montag chooses to defy the government regardless of all consequences he might face. The books expose the truth which later differentiate Montag from the rest of society. Montag becomes a more intellectual thinker that realizes he cannot continue agreeing with what he knows is wrong.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the firemen burn the most wonderful things books. The main character Guy Montag is one of the main characters that is a fireman. Instead of putting out fires like they do today, they burn any house that has any type of evidence that you have books. They do not care who you are or what you do, they will burn your house if you have them. In the start of the book he is burning the books and just doing what he is told.

In the beginning of the novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist, is very happy with his job. He is a fireman, where in this future, they start fires instead of putting them out. Montag says, “I like fire,” showing he has no qualms about the job. (2) The reason why they set the homes a burn, is because it was reported to have books, which are

In a world where not a thing was ever unexpected, or inconvenient, or unusual. A life without colour, pain, or diversity. This is the type of qualities that both the world in Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury and Equilibrium, directed by Kurt Wimmer have in common. These two stories are comparable in numerous ways. For example, the protagonists of both narratives rebel against their societies and completely disagree with what they are implementing. They also include characters that are faithful to the government until the protagonist interacts with them and makes them think twice about who they are loyal to. Next, at the end of these tales, there is a revolution and a new beginning and the world of dystopia is no more. Even though there are many

Although Equilibrium and Fahrenheit 451 don’t posses the exact same story line, they do have their similarities. Such as the societies lived in, their protagonists who are pawns of the system and persuasion from a female character that changes their outlook.