Fahrenheit 451 Literary Analysis

Over time people have gotten lazier and we have machines to blame. According to Ray Bradbury, “why learn anything save pressing buttons…”( Bradbury 53). In Bradbury’s society in Fahrenheit 451 people just sit back, relax, press a button, and watch a machine do the work for them. Much like in our society, people get lazy and just watch a machine do the work that they could be doing, and having no human interaction whatsoever. According to The Bottom Line, “Internet and mobile technology seems to be subtly destroying the meaningfulness of interactions we have with others.”(Technology Destroying Human Interaction). This is becoming the reality not only in Fahrenheit 451 but in our everyday society.

Why did the government take away books for the people? Was it because they wanted them to buy more of their new technology or books had no meaning. The book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury was about the life of Guy Montag figuring out what he wanted to be, and want he wanted to do. Montag thought he loved to burn books, and it brought him pleasure, but he liked them or than he hated them. He really liked books even though he didn’t know how to read them. He even risked his life over them. His job was to defend the law but was he actually going against it. The government could have been brainwashing their people to hate books just to get their money. The government decided to get rid of books, so their people will find other interests, like

Ray Bradbury is a great foreshadower. His work is generally fantasy and horror and he it is exquisite. Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 back in 1953 and it still connects with the conflicts of today. The way society was in Fahrenheit 451 is similar to how it is today. The society is arrogant and selfish. No one cares about anyone or anything besides the TVs and technology. In Fahrenheit 451, the lack of physical communication and relationships between people due to the development of technology sabotages society before they know it.

The reason the government does not allow the populous to read books is because they are fearful the knowledge gained from reading would be evidence to rebel against the system.

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

Clarisse is one of the characters who influenced Montag by showing her own world. Clarisse remind Montag the fireman’s real job. Clarisse said ‘”strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames”’ (pg 8). Clarisse is the one of character who read a book in conflict read society. She confused Montag on

Fahrenheit 451 (1953), written by Ray Bradbury depicts a dystopian society which, due to the absence of books, discourages intellect and punishes free-will. As receptacles of knowledge, books give human beings a unique power, as they encourage and nurture intellect and understanding. The intellectual metamorphosis that Montag undergoes renders him aware of this fact, making him an incredibly dangerous figure in the society of Fahrenheit 451. Despite Montag’s understanding of the power of books, he only recognises his true purpose in life once all elements from his former society had been destroyed.

Once Montag starts protesting to Faber, he truly understands the condition of those around him: “Did you hear them, did you hear these monsters talking about monsters? Oh God… I stand here and I can’t believe it!” Prior to associating with Clarisse, Montag would not have understood the repulsive topics the women were conversing about, such as war and not being affected by their husbands’ deaths. However, Clarisse was aware, and she was able to influence Montag. Once Montag was aware of what was occurring around him, his frustration was too much to handle and he snapped. Social and individual protest is so vital to a community because if people like Montag don’t challenge the ideas of conformity, society will ever

In Fahrenheit 451 the author, Ray Bradbury, tries to make us think throughout his book about problems that could make the world a very terrible place in the future if people do not try to change things. One of the most significant issues that Bradbury talks about in his book is the fact that technology can become very dangerous if not used properly. In Fahrenheit 451, people are watching the TV walls all the time and, because of them, people stop communicating with each other. A moment in the book when technology is used in a bad way is when we learn that cars are made for going fast and that anyone would run over anything with their cars and kill it. In this society people take their cars which are called beetles and they “hit rabbits, sometimes hit dogs” (Bradbury 61) as if it is completely normal to kill animals. In the society of the book Fahrenheit 451, technology has completely taken away the meaning of family and people’s conviviality.

People always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. This is the case as well in Fahrenheit 451, the novel, written by Ray Bradbury, is the story that follows a normal man, Guy Montag, who lived a normal life in his civilization post apocalptic as a fireman. Although where he is from, it is not a fireman’s duty to put out fires, but rather to burn books. It is because of his profession he battled his conscience to find answers to his many questions. Throughout this book, Montag changed his perceptive on literature in his society for the better because he became a critical thinker and stopped being passive like everyone else where

“Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator. He caught her, shrieking. He held her and she tried to fight away from him scratching,” (63). In the novel Fahrenheit 451 follows the protagonist, Guy Montag, and his interactions with society discouraging and encouraging his discovery of the illegal books. Along the way he understands who are the poisonous people in his dystopian world and who are not; changing his perspective to lose trust in his wife Mildred, from previous quote, and finding safety with Faber, a retired professor he came by one day in a park. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author demonstrates the idea that when there is censorship in the world, ignorance will follow because when a subject is hidden from one anything they do regarding it is under the impression of their lack of knowledge surrounding the topic, this becomes more relevant when Ray Bradbury acknowledges the emotions of people who have read books and whom haven't and their general opinions of them.

In the beginning of the novel Montag is a fireman who burns books, but after he meets Clarisse, he starts to question about the books and why society is the way it is now. This reveals the theme that too much knowledge can lead to the destruction of society. In the

As the conversation carries on between Clarisse and Montag, she begins to notice that Montag is different. She claims “You 're not like the others. I 've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time anymore for anyone else. You 're one of the few who put up with me...He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other” (Bradbury 11). Clarisse points out the unique qualities to Montag because whenever they talk, Montag reacts by looking at her or objects that she is talking about. She reveals that the average people cannot comprehend the concept of socializing or reflect on thoughts thus they relapse to a state of violence as a resort to stop thinking. Clarisse doesn’t persuade Montag to think like her, but influence Montag to think outside the box and increase his curiosity. Clarisse’s character going against the common social conformity activates a rare phenomenon inside Montag’s mind. Montag was given two paths, hence the cold and hot or soft and hard. One Path guides Montag down the path of individuality and the other path leads him to the normal society life. Clarisse was an individual who opens the doors to Montag to let him

Montag was rebellious, but for a good reasons He didn't intend to hurt people, but he engaged in dangerous activities to prove a point. After his encounters with Clarisse and witnessing the woman being burnt alive, he changed his opinions about books. He got more curious and interested, so he broke the law and harbored his own books for his own good. After Faber tells Montag that he is running a risk, he replies but saying, “‘That's the good part of dying, when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.’” (Bradbury 85).

In the book, it doesn't represent exemplary relationships. People spend most of their times facing their bright TV Walls to distract their thoughts from their sad lives. Thus, they never sat around and talked or thought about meaningful things. But Clarisse and her family were different, they were wiser and they were not blinded by their society like other people. "I rarely watch the 'parlour walls' or go to races or Fun Parks. So I've lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess.", Clarisse says to Montag. This also connects to technology because the fictional characters depend on their technology-seashell radios, TV Parlors, mechanical hounds, etc-to move on with their miserable lives. I believe that Bradbury wrote this book for the future generations because if we get sucked into technology as the characters in 451, the world will turn into a depressing environment where people will rarely have verbal conversations and will rely on gadgets to fix our problems. Not to mention, that today’s generation is already on this dreadful path of terror. Our eyes are