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Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

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“People want to be happy…[if] people don’t like [it]...burn it… burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.” (Bradbury 63). Imagine a classless, confined society where people’s opinion’s are squandered and knowledge is restricted. Individualism would be prohibited, imagination abandoned, and the population forced to obey as instructed. This robotic society is the world Ray Bradbury established in his book Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451, struggles through this ruthless and savage society. Day in and day out, Montag, a common fireman, goes to work obeying as instructed. Throughout frequent situations, he realizes that society is twisted into a abhorrent knot, and his perspective of society is …show more content…

The mass population all around Montag, operated the same way. These individuals, go to work, obey instructions, and then arrive home and are told what to believe and know through technology. Montag immensely disapproves of the way society is developed and controlled. “‘What do you know about [the candidates] Hoag and Noble!”’ (Bradbury 99). Individuals are manipulated into voting for candidates. Therefore becoming inadequate and unable to think for themselves, relying on what the technology to direct them. Montag eventually get so distraught with the way individuals are exploited that he explodes. “‘Shut up, shut up, shut up!’ It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag found himself on his feet…” (Bradbury 81). Montag could not tolerate the use of technology to educate people, no one thought, imagined, created, developed or did anything but sit lazily on the couch. He could not talk to anyone, almost as if everyone were robotic. “She had the Seashells stuffed in her ears. Silence…” (Bradbury 50). There was no one who Montag could communicate with because all were too busy with technology. Montag extremely loathed technology and developed a sense of hatred towards society, feeling it was completely

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