Fahrenheit 451 Ignorant Quotes

Montag, brought up to burn books, is confused at his actions. As his mind unravels he begins to think for himself after meeting Faber, he constantly questions how he “could have been so blind” and “how it got to this.” He thinks back to burning books and thinks “my hands did the actions, mindlessly” montag feels anger toward his ignorance, maybe he could have done things different. Guy pity’s himself and his wife, mildred, not because he is sad, because he wish things could have been different for them. Mostly, is enraged by the ignorance and helplessness of the people around himself, and is the cause of most of his confusion.

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

In fahrenheit 451 struggle revolves around the tension between knowledge and ignorance. Firemen destroy knowledge of all forms, books in perticlar. This doesn’t stop Montag though. He is given many struggles because he wants to learn. I feel like this is somewhat relevant to nowadays society. We faced with those who want to be knowledged but majority has turned to substance and have become consumed in it. Society in fahrenheit 451 is very similar to today’s society. The education system is at a falling point and ignorance is growing. What though should become more important substance or knowledge and growing to a person.

There are many instances where Montag is brave instead of being a coward, and ignoring his problems. One of these instances is when Montag attempts to rescue the woman at 11 No Elm. In the book Montag says “Your just going to leave her there?” to Beatty who of course says yes. This was brave for Montag to speak up to Beatty because firemen are supposed to be in disgust over the people who hide books. In this way, Montag is different than his society.

According to the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Rollo May’s quote “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity” is inaccurate because for what these people in the society conformed to, is a coward act on it’s own. To go ahead and follow something you don’t have knowledge on with the stakes so high and then not give others a voice when they bring viewpoints that differ to what you originally conformed to, is known as a cowardly act. Conforming is just a cover up stuck in ignorance and stubbornness, an excuse for cowardice.

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.

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

This is a quote that has made people think in many ways and the use of it in Fahrenheit 451 just makes us think even more. This quote is from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is ironic that the first book Montag reads from is one that condemns a government and society. The quote is: “It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end.” The Lilliputians (the tiny people in Gulliver's Travels) have an ongoing threat from a neighboring island which coincides with how Montag is threatened by his society and government.. The cause of the argument is a disagreement over the way an egg should be broken. Those people who have chosen to die to have chosen to go

This quote from Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is when Montag is on his way to see Faber to make sure he is okay. Montag had just killed Beatty and thought about how when he had tried to kill him Beatty didn’t even move he just stood there waiting for Montag to kill him, this made Montag realize that Beatty had wanted to die. This shows the idea of conformity because Beatty was so upset with the way his life was and actually wanted to die but he pretended like he was fine and went along with the norms of society because he knew that if he had violated the norms he would be treated as a deviant, just like Clarisse was. Beatty was considered a body shelled in another body because he hid who he truly was and came off as a different person. Many of the other characters in this book also acted like they were happy when they weren’t just like Mildred, she had

This quote happens at the end of Part One of Fahrenheit 451 when Montag reads an excerpt of a book to Mildred. This quote appears in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Johnathon Swift; this novel tells the story of two empires who came to be at war. This quote specifically talks about the way people broke their eggs to eat. The people of this empire have always broken their eggs on the large end, however, after the king's son cut himself, the king ordered his people to break their eggs on the short end. Many people opposed this law, and pandemonium broke out within the people leading them to kill the king, and lose his crown. When Mildred heard this quote, she did not understand the quote and came to the conclusion that books were stupid. However,

In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a quote “You don’t have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” This quote does pertain to today’s society because it can still apply just with a different perspective. This can often be applied with children.

Fahrenheit 451 is about a man who thought that the world needed to do away with books and just burn them and transfer over to technology. Referring to the a quote in the book “When Montag allows Faber to look through the Bible, Faber mentions that it is a shame how advertisers and the media have commercialized religion. Montag then begins to explain his unhappiness and Faber mentions that Montag is in search of some of the things that books provided” and as he searches, he looks for its overall purpose which he thinks there isn't any. The stubbornness of people and the fact that they have selective judgement on everything. As they plot what they are going to do to take down the system the very much hurt people and building in the process

During the end of the novel, Granger mentioned to Montag that “ the most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important” Granger told Montag this when he was explaining how the group formed. The meaning of Granger’s quote relates to the overall theme of Fahrenheit 451.

"...We let the fireman keep the book twenty-four hours, if he hasn't burned it by then, we simply come burn it for him." In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, a ten-year working, fireman begins to question everything after he meets an odd girl who tells him of the past where people had no fear. He then on begins to defy a government brainwashed society and seeks out a man that will teach him to think for himself. There are many important elements in this novel that can be spotted in our own society and live. These elements include, not having initiative, oblivion to the outside world, and unclear consciences.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses Montag’s curiosity about literature to expose the dangers of the restrictions that his society places on knowledge. Although Montag is initially a member of the group responsible for burning books, his thirst for knowledge overpowers his desire to conform to society. He realizes that the members of his society are extremely superficial and do not care for things that actually matter, like the possibility of a war. Montag delves deeper in his quest to make people care when he says, “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your