Fahrenheit 451 Literary Analysis

Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic American city where books are illegal, firefighters start the fires, and filled with people who do not think independently. Guy Montag, a local fireman, becomes frustrated with his life and starts taking books from homes that he burns. Once the fired chef begins to finds out what Montag is doing Montag become flustered trying to understand what the books mean before he gets caught. He turns to a retired professor named Faber to help him. Faber and Montag come up with a plan to bring down the firemen by putting books in all of the firemen’s houses. This plan stopped when Montag got into the fire truck, and it shows up at his own home to be burned down. After burning down his own

Fahrenheit 451 is a central story of one man’s journey to re-evaluate the truth, which can be deconstructed from its narrative structures to apparent binary oppositions. Bradbury uses a variety of paradoxical statements to describe the deconstructive difference between alive vs. dead. While Mildred, Montag’s wife feels alive with her television family that she regularly interacts with in the parlor, Montag feels like Mildred is physically present but her thoughts and feelings are elsewhere. Furthermore, Montag describes the mechanical hound and “electric-eyed snake” as living creatures, however they are spiritually dead, “the mechanical hound slept but did no sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly

“There must be something in books, something we can imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”(Pg. 51) Main character Guy Montag is a servant to a society that is controlled by censorship and the fear of knowledge; Montag has spent his life burning books, to prevent the spread knowledge. But a series of events cause Montag's mind to change, and result in him breaking free from his society. The internal struggle of dynamic character Guy Montag, as to whether he should go on believing the lies his society has told him, or risk his life for something as simple as words on a page, brings readers into the corrupt society of Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray

In both Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Vonnegut’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the authors show major concerns about the future. Bradbury’s major concern is the misuse of technology that leads to the corruption of society while Vonnegut’s major concern is overpopulation and the lack of natural resources for the future. Both authors show concerns that can turn out to be real if people do not do anything about the environment and about technology.

Sandy Hook Elementary School. San Bernardino. Paris. What do all of these places have in common? They fell victim to unpredictability. Mass shootings are not new to our society, but they are still a devastating problem that should not exist any longer. Mass shootings connect to the novel, Fahrenheit 451, through both the unnecessary violence and the absence of humanity that are evident in the novel. Mass shootings are a devastating problem in our society, and now their numbers have escalated to a new level. This change reflects how both our society and our humanity is beginning to crumble, solutions like banning unnecessary and excessive fire arms are currently being enacted.

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, details a world filled with mindless entertainment and a lack of self-expression. Everyone is not only discouraged to think for themselves, but also fearful of unique thoughts and ideas. A quote from the book that would describe this is, “It was a pleasure to burn…with the brass nozzle in his fists…blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history…While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark and burning.” (1) Books, which would provide information and knowledge, are forbidden and burned. The owner who is caught with them is put in prison. The idea of a society run by one who dictate the rules, take away all freedom. These consequences for disobeying and being an “individual” are strong reasons the

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

In Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, and “There Will Come Soft Rains,” the authors, Ray Bradbury and Lois Lowry, portray a dysfunctional world that has dehumanized its people. All three literary works display a world where the minds of people are twisted. They support the theory that technology takes away everything that makes humans unique. In these stories, the society that the main characters live in is too dependent on technology, resulting in people with empty, meaningless lives.

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is one man attempting to turn his society upside down. After discovering for himself the injustice of his society as it shuns all literature, Montag relentlessly fights to fix this corruption and endures large amounts of persecution in the process (Bradbury). Meanwhile, in his autobiography, Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass recounts his past as a single slave doing his best to right the evils of southern slaveholders. Although one takes place in a fantasy and one during 19th century America, both works portray individuals going against the unjust grain of their societies, and persevering through extreme opposition in the process. After escaping the grip of slavery, Douglass recounts his life story to a curious, yet most-likely privileged audience in an intelligent and revealing manner. Throughout his narrative, Douglass praises the surprising resilience of the human spirit even in the midst of constant hardship.

As unfortunate as it is, we will go through many struggles, hardships, and heartbreaks throughout the span of our lives. While we've all experienced times where we wish we could bypass all the low points, and instead experience only happiness, there is reason behind the trials and tribulations we face. For example, in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the main character, Joel, falls in love with a girl named Clementine only to have the relationship fall apart. Breakups are a natural, yet very painful part of life and it would be spectacular if we didn't have to go through them, but sometimes it's these hardships that provide us with a lesson to be gained. We learn about what we like or dislike about a partner. We learn about what may have caused the relationship to fail, and then we learn how we can avoid those problems in future relationships. In Fahrenheit 451, the plot encompasses around the idea that the world needs more censorship, and in the dystopia in which the novel takes place, the solution to a seemingly "better" society is to burn books. The solution in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is to have your memory of the person that caused you heartbreak to be erased. Perhaps these solutions may "fix" certain negative qualities about the way life operates, they are only putting a band-aid over life's problems, and therefore not resulting in an effective or morally correct outcome. Given the fact that censorship poses a hindrance to the development of society

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a novel that illustrates what could happen to our society in the future. The novel portrays a society in which books, excluding comic books and other simple technical books, are banned and burned for the good of the society as the people believed. The books are seen as a source of unhappiness and, therefore, the society has decided to Ban them and put the fireman in charge of maintaining the censorships. I believe that books are not only banned because they make people unhappy but because they make people unequal. I believe that censorship of books is indented to make everyone in the society equal.

In Fahrenheit 451,fireman burn books instead of helping those people that needed them. The government in Fahrenheit 451 does not want the people to grow any knowledge by reading books, therefore they burn the books. The fireman burned books to prevent the people from gaining knowledge. Bradbury states how much books are worth,”Books,so the damned snobbish

“The woman reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing” (37). Montag and the other firemen report to a house that is suspected of harboring books. They are correct, and they find books in the attic of the home. The books belong to an old woman whose name is unknown to the readers, and she was devastated that the firemen were destroying her home and books. Ultimately she kills herself by setting fire to herself, her home, and the books. The very property and books in question that were about to be burned by Captain Beatty. She felt that books were so important in her life that she could not go on without them. Some people would feel that things to die for, like freedom, liberty, and their family would be more important, but this woman chose her books. It seems very clear to me that Ray Bradbury seems to be telling us, the readers, that there are things in life

Some citizens are so passionate about their novels they would burn with their books as the firemen set the books on fire. Firemen in this crooked society will do anything to disallow people from books, even if it means burning them with the books, Captain Beatty tells Montag “...these fanatics always try suicide; the pattern’s familiar.” (Bradbury 39) Citizens who protect their books and die with their books as they burn, proves how important books are to people who have discovered there “powers” and how great they are for relaxing and such. The world is so ignorant about how much you can benefit from books, but throughout everyone’s life all they learn about is how books should be hated by all. People who do not take the time to explore book’s greatness believe (like the rest) that books are evil and should be burnt, so they think everyone who reads them is better than those who do not read, Montag is to be believed to be one of these “book loving freaks” when Beatty says “You think you can walk on water with your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them.” (118) People in general no matter what society, dystopic or not, believe anything the government throws in their face. By burning books, the government is making citizens believe reading is terrible, expanding your mind with literature is disgustingly bad, and create people who read

The government is reducing the chances for everyone to think by taking away books from people to read in many communities around the world. For example in F451, as Montag returns from work, he encounters with a curious, open minded, 17 year old named Clarisse, who asks him, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn? He responded by saying, “That’s against the law.”(8) Clarisse wonders if Montag reads any of the books that he destroys, but realizes that in this society in which they live, it is against the law to read books. They most likely made this law because they didn’t want them knowing anything about the past, which would work as a caution for those living in the future. Later on in the story when Montag returned to the firehouse, he looked past the other firemen and “Gazed beyond them to the wall with the typed lists of a million forbidden book.”(34) Montag is starting to get curious and starts questioning if the idea to