Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

Happiness is something many people vie for but can't quite reach. It's something that is a result of fully developing one's potential. In Ray Bradbury's, Fahrenheit-451, the main character, Guy Montag, experiences internal conflicts such as his sudden realization of unhappiness and his insatiable home life.

Society can change a person in a negatively or positively. Mildred is the wife of the main character, Guy Montag, in the novel Fahrenhelt 451, by Ray Bradbury. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.

While the government may gain from restraining the thought of society, the people in society lose many important traits. Their whole culture has disappeared, people have lost all of their social skills. When Mildred and her friends are having a small party, Montag observes how they act together, and how they speak to each other, “Doesn’t everyone look nice!’ ‘Nice.’ ‘You look fine, Millie’ ‘Fine’ ‘Everyone looks swell.’ ‘Swell!” (89-90). The women haven’t talked about anything besides how everyone looks, a topic that they barely get into. The women can’t talk about war, because that’s been hidden from them, they also can’t debate anything, because debates and controversy have been eradicated from their whole society. On the other hand, Clarisse

Often in literature a character who is alienated from society. In Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse McClellan is alienated from her society. Clarisse is alienated through her abnormal values, her family’s values, and by not attending to society’s norm. This can show, through her alienation, her society’s morals and values.

Clarisse McClellan, Guy Montag and Mildred Montag are some citizens living in the dystopian society of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In the epigraph written by Spanish poet, Juan Ramon Jimenez reads, “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.” This means when faced with opposition or conformity, insurrection, the act of revolting against the government, should be considered carefully. Taking action is an option, but is not Bradbury’s true intentions by adding this fitting epigraph to his story. By showing readers his connection between ruled paper and writing the other way through his characters, Bradbury shares his understanding of indirect rebellion and the 3 types of people found in civil division. Both Clarisse and Mildred are

“’Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames’” (Bradbury 6). In the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a fireman, someone that burns books for the government to keep a firm control on what knowledge society has. However, through a series of events populated by an attempted suicide, a young girl, and an old man, Montag is shown a life where books are treasured instead of feared and hated. Armed with a vision of what the world has been, and could be like again, Montag ultimately meets up in the aftermath of a war with others that share his vision, and they begin their mission to make fire something other than a source of fear: a healing power.

1. The narrator, Ray Bradbury is saying the words. He is comparing the soft fluttering of a fly’s wings in ones ear to the vibration that occurred in Montag’s ear when Faber

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” -Yehuda Bauer. In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray bradbury, Montag did not stand by and observe the corruption of the government, but instead took matters into his own hands and rebelled for what he believed in. A person is able to rebel when they cannot think their own way, when they are forced to do something, and the uneasiness of being unsafe.

“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 any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow. (Page 21)

Montag's house was on fire. He ended up burning all to forget about his past for example his wife whom he never loved and never knew her. “Fire was the best for everything” Montag felt this because Fire was the only way out of everything, his feeling and thoughts. In this this Montag showed that he is “unhappy” with his life because of everything such as Clarisse’s death. Clarisse is a young lady who loves adventures and have new experiences she died on a car crash. She showed Montag the way of life and why it’s important to live every second of

There are many themes in Fahrenheit 451, one of these themes found is that a society full of distraction will lead people to ignore. Ray Bradbury demonstrates ignorance throughout the when he writes about people caring about them self and the ¨parlour walls “ and not being concerned about others.

In a society where firefighter’s purposely burn books, anything is possible. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a firefighter, Guy Montag, follows the rules and expectations of burning books. The job of a firefighter is to burn books because they are banned in the society Montag is a part of. Throughout the book Montag meets various characters that create curiosity and help him gain knowledge about the rules of his society. In the end, Montag is able to develop his own opinions and views about the rules he is following.

In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury shows us that this book is described as a totalitarian dystopian story. In the beginning of the book he explains the hatred that is held by the people against books and he carries out this theme throughout the whole story. By stating “So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless” (Bradbury 83). This quote is stating that the government is taking control over people by taking the little things, such as books, that provide mankind with information on a day to day basis, making it easy for the people’s minds to grow and become more educated. Within the quote that is used, Bradbury uses imagry when he says “pores in the face of life” he is refuring to the knowledge that comes from the books that leads people to questioning the authority compared to the ignorance of the society that is shown throughout the novel.

In Fahrenheit 151, a book written by Ray Bradbury, one of the major points of the plot is censorship. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist, begins to steal books from the fires he’s responded to and hides them inside his air vent. Beatty, his chief, explains how books used to be and how citizens were horrified and offended by them. Authors began to edit their books, trying not to offend anyone, and as a result, began to create dull and boring books. Society then decided to burn all the books then have more people offended by them. Montag then decides to talk to Faber, a retired professor who team up to start planting reprinted books in houses for firemen to find. After trying to show his wife about the books and how useful they are, his wife betrays Montag by burning his house down. This was society’s way of censorship, by banning books that promote free thinking.

This passage confuses me because he had never before referred to Clarisse as a friend, they had only know each other for a couple weeks at the most. Montag’s wife was also not dying in the book so that also didn’t make sense to me at all. The person that could have been his friend would likely never be his friend because where would they have never met if they weren’t already friends. Going along with the book it sounds like making new friends and talking a lot is abnormal so it would have drawn suspicion if they did talk and become friends. I find it abnormal that he would remember someone from a year ago and to trust the man he didn't know. Why would he do so? For all he could have known was that the old man was undercover and trying to trick him into something stupid. You shouldn’t trust someone like that when you’re only met once before.