Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

When I began to watch the movie, I could not believe how people would be happy living in conformity. They were just victims of society. We have more technology, computer programs that can respond to us. We have more media, television, and internet. People are also reading in many ways. Whether is through an actual book, iPad or Kindle. People are not prohibited to read books, but to read more. Captain Beatty seemed like he hated books because he was afraid the world would be less black and white. People have a right to immerse themselves in mindless distraction under any circumstances. It is like a variety of entertainment. What you enjoyed as a child does not mean you will enjoy it as an adult. The dumbing down of culture is possible nowadays. If people did not take the time to acquire the necessary knowledge, they will not conform themselves to the level they find themselves in. We can avoid history from repeating itself if we do as Montag did. He came out of a world of ignorance into a world of knowledge. At the end of the movie I could not have said it better than the band of scholars, the knowledge you earn from books, stays in your brain and no matter what happens no one will ever be able to destroy that knowledge unless they destroy

Quote one: “ He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact. Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.” pg.5.

In Ray Bradbury’s novel, censorship is implemented in an odd way through the dystopian society. Firemen in today’s time are ordinarily known for “those who put out fires,” but the role of firemen in this story is completely different. They are the enforcers of the censorship law and are called when there is a suspect known hiding books in their home. Montag who is the prime character and fireman starts the story with a quote saying, “It was a pleasure to burn” (3). This confirms that firemen in the dystopian society seem to take their jobs as book burners with satisfaction. When Guy Montag awakes in the novel and questions the reasons why books are considered dangerous and to be burned. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag had said, “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” He realizes that if someone dies for books they must be doing something right.

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

Fahrenheit 451 is a book that uses a lot of imagery in order to convey its message written by Ray Bradbury an American author and screenwriter who let himself through his imagination. Theis novel book is set in a futuristice American society where people are not allowed to read books. The story revolves around the main character, Montag, a fireman whose job it is to burn books, and the people that he meets and experiences that challenges him to his societaly beliefs. Fire is one image that is used as something that represents distraction. Sad,unhappy and not adventurous are a way to describe Montag.

First of all, Montag faces government censorship over society’s citizens, which changes him to become a courageous character, and he learns that because the government has taught people to take what they have for

Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books and follows all of the rules. He likes his job “It was a pleasure to burn” (pg 3). Montag enjoys his job so deeply that he “grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame” (pg 4). He follows the ideas of society, does not question the government, and tries not to be the odd one out. When he meets his new neighbor, Clarisse, she gets him to think about himself as a fireman and says “So many people are. Afraid of firemen” (pg 6), which tells us that firemen have mediocre popularity among the public.

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.

Picture society in a couple hundred years where nothing will ever be the same. Laws will be changed, technology will be more advanced and no one will remember how life previously was. People will live in a society where the government will control everyday living, and technology will over power one’s mind. Dystopian films and stories are not used to predict the future but to guide you if something like that were to ever come about. One key factor that influences the story or film is how the author or producer uses stylistic elements to send a social commentary message to the audience. The conversational sentence structure in Fahrenheit 451 creates an informal tone. The story, being told in third person, contemplates the events from the protagonist's

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a fireman named Guy Montag who has been burning books for ten years. However, once he meets a 17-year old girl named Clarisse and a professor who tells him about the value of books, he realizes that he would rather give up his job than burn books. Unfortunately, there are many individuals in Montag’s society who have differing mentalities about books. The individuals in Montag’s society are distracted by outside forces that prevent them from forming and maintaining a stable community.

In Ray Bradbury’s novel, “Fahrenheit 451”, he creates a futuristic society impacted by censorship, where citizens are forced to conform to the government’s manipulation. In this society, all forms of literature became a dangerous gateway to knowledge and are regarded as signs of controversy. Books have been outlawed, and thus the human mind, individuality and thought have all become a blurred existence. Society has become senseless. Merely a place where a fireman’s profession is burning books and any houses found with books kept inside. The novel’s protagonist, Montage, also a fireman, is the narrator of the given quote above. Through the repetitive word “burning”, Bradbury emphasizes Montage’s sense of revelation. Montage realizes he must

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind.” (Bradbury 58) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in a futuristic dystopian society; books are burned to restrict knowledge from citizens. Guy Montag, the protagonist, is a fireman who burns the books. Montag is taken by surprise when he meets Clarisse McClellan as he is walking home from work. Clarisse is an anomaly in the society; her stark contrast in comparison to the rest of the world forces Montag to question himself. From there, a rebellion spread that sparks a change in Montag and in society. In his novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury constructs the idea that censorship of knowledge causes citizens to discontinue questioning

1. Montag is not happy. 2. They decided to just forget about the things that made people unhappy. 3. Society has no feeling so it is not

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we can see a lot of things wrong with the society, things that most people think could happen to us, but is it really that unrealistic? Ray Bradbury didn't think so when he wrote it because he was writing about his own time period, shortly after WWII, but the themes he wrote about are still present today. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury criticizes illusion of happiness, oppression, and loss of self, not only his fictitious society, but our society in real life, too.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the reader is informed that the protagonist Guy  Montag is struggling to find self-control and peace within himself by stating, "And the leg was at last his own leg again" (Bradbury 117).   At this point in the novel, Montag is running from the government and the mechanical hound and he suddenly falls to the stone-cold concrete due to his leg that was injured by the hound. He gets up and realizes that one of his internal wars within himself, was beaten, and his mind was finally in control of his own body. In part one of the novel, Montag struggles with the truth about himself, Mildred, and society. When Clarisse asks him if he is happy, he realizes that he really is not content with his life and wife.