Happiness, Distraction And Reality In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

Writing this novel Bradbury has let other readers feel close to him allowing them to feel like they can relate to him through his stories as well as Montag. Bradbury and Montag relate because they know what is expected of them to succeed and satisfy themselves. Montag holds the responsibility as being a fireman and burning books instead he keeps them other characters in the story can relate who have escaped the society and they will also help him to do the same. They both feel they need to catch up on their past and make the most of their life while they have it. “ Montag opines on several occasions throughout the novel that he needs to catch up with the memories of the past.” They both love books and would

“’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.

Fahrenheit 451 is a book published by Ray Bradbury in 1953 set in the 21st century. The protagonist, named Guy Montag, has the job of a fireman who burns books which are illegal to obtain or read. Montag usually has the easy job of burning houses that contain books while the police would come beforehand and get rid of anyone living there. This lets fireman like Montag not have to deal with human interaction and emotion. In the book, Montag's firemen crew is called to burn down a house, but they appear before the police arrive. A lady is still in the house gathered with her books refusing to leave. Before anyone can make her leave, the lady commits suicide by burning herself with her books. Montag starts questioning his society and wonders if books are bad, why would someone die for them. Montag starts reading the books that society wanted to burn. He starts to learn things and the more he reads, the more he wonders why people aren’t allowed too. Bradbury’s 451 characters all symbolize different realms of this futuristic, book burning culture, and the masses are content with the illusion of happiness they have created for themselves. In many ways, Bradbury predicted behaviors that saturated much of modern American culture. As new things are found to be diagnosed, people become obsessed with finding the fastest and easiest ways to feel better causing doctors to overdiagnose and overmedicate people of all ages; therefore, causing America to develop a dependency to pharmaceutical drugs.

During his work day, fellow firemen who believe in burning books surround Montag. Because Montag does not believe in this concept, he lives in fear that firemen will find out and share the news to his boss. To achieve this, Montag must complete some inhumane tasks. For example, a call to duty, of burning books found in a house, to Montag's fire station order them to the scene. A woman stands in her house surrounded by books she has hidden. She refuses to let the firemen burn the books and stood in the house to burn with them. As Montag piles up more and more books to burn, the narrator observes , “Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief” (35). At this point in Montag's life, he strongly believes in the preservation of books. Montag frequently completes jobs alongside many other fireman who do support the act of burning books. Therefore, out of fearfulness,

Although Montag now knows the truth behind books, what they stand for, and why they’re hated so much Montag needed guidance he needed an objective it was until after meeting Granger he finds a new meaning. Before meeting Granger, Montag and Faber devised a plan to setup the firemen by placing books in each one of their homes. This plan went terribly bad when Montag’s last call as a firefighter was to his own house it was then and there Montag became an exile of the law. Montag forced to leave the life he once knew behind managed to escape and group up with an

[Hook]. Clarisse goes against the beliefs of the society, which can cause ideas to spread that can be used to create a powerful force. Clarisse had to be killed/silenced because her values are against their society. Society cannot risk the fight that would result if she, or others like her, were to live.

"’I feel alive for the first time in years,’ said Faber. ‘I feel I’m doing what I should’ve done a long time ago. For a little while I’m not afraid. Maybe it’s because I’m doing the right thing at last” (Bradbury, 125). Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury, in the setting of the 24th century. It tells the fictional story of the main character, Guy Montag, a thirty year old man who is a firefighter. Contrary to our modern civilization, firefighters such as Montag start fires, burning books and the owner’s belongings and house with it. Montag enjoyed his life until he came across a young lady, who makes him question himself, his job, his life, and happiness.

A major theme found in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is that your perception of happiness affects your happiness. This message is largely emulated in Montag’s journey of self discovery throughout the book. His perception of happiness changes from the beginning to the end. In the first few pages, Montag believes happiness comes from being comfortable, along with the rest of his society. The novel opens with the line “It was a pleasure to burn”(3). Guy Montag is introduced as being content with his life and his job. He appears to find his satisfaction in the pleasure of burning books. However, after conversing with a bright minded girl named Clarisse, he begins to question what happiness really means to him. On page 12 he explains, “He wore his happiness

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character, is a normal man living a life as a Firemen. He thinks he loves the job, but there is one difference between the firemen today and the firemen in the book that makes him question his happiness. The firemen in the book create fires to burn books instead of a traditional firemen role, to put out fires. Montag begins to realize the something is amiss when Clarisse makes him understand that he is not truly happy and he tries to find the underlying root of his unhappiness. While still conforming on the outside, Montag secretly changes his views on the mindless

One person’s happiness is completely different than that of the person next to them. In Fahrenheit 451, society is given the idea that happiness is found in the fast life. Students crash cars, crack windows, and drive recklessly for fun. Schooling in this society isn’t even in the realm of learning. Instead, it is filled with sports, electronics, and everything but learning. Death is a quick cremation instead of funerals and mourning. Adults not only have poor relationships with their spouses, but their children. Yet, this to them, is happiness. Even to Montag, this was happiness; until he discovered it wasn’t. He was one of the lucky few that was able to escape the vacuum of this new society, like Ted in The Lorax. In a world of people that don’t care about the wellbeing of the animals, the trees, or the rest of the world, Ted took a step out of the norm. This

Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, illustrates a futuristic society that condemns the individuality and knowledge, inspired by books. The novel, written in 1953, examines societal problems during the time period after World War II, continuing into the beginning of the Cold War. Bradbury’s novel surrounds a fireman named Guy Montag, who ironically, starts fires, instead of extinguishing them, in order to burn books. As a means to control censorship and promote conformity, books have been outlawed and burned. Using satire, Fahrenheit 451 examines and warns the existence of an anti-utopian, collective society through Montag’s character development, friends and family, and workplace.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is about a society where books aren’t allowed because the government thinks they will make the people smarter. The fireman in this society are starting the fires instead of turning them off,they burn the people in the houses because they have books. Guy Montag, a fireman, has his views changed in this society by a young girl named Clarisse. He realizes that what he is doing is wrong and he wants to change it. He runs away from the government and runs into other men who also want to change the government.

Most people want to be happy. Happiness is what most consider to be the ultimate fulfillment in life. But what is happiness without knowing what sadness is? Can you truly be happy and appreciate life when all you know is good things? In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, everyone seems to be what they think is happy. Clarisse makes Montag question himself if he really is happy. She tells him that you can't feel happiness without beforehand knowing what unhappiness is. Mildred shows that people are empty inside in this society because they don't know real emotions and what it's like to feel them. Faber, Montag, and Clarisse represent how knowledge makes people more “real” and happy with life because it helps them realize what's important in life.

The philosopher Aristotle once wrote, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” This famous quote compels people to question the significance of their joy, and whether it truly represents purposeful lives they want to live. Ray Bradbury, a contemporary author, also tackles this question in his book, Fahrenheit 451, which deals heavily with society's view of happiness in the future. Through several main characters, Bradbury portrays the two branches of happiness: one as a lifeless path, heading nowhere, seeking no worry, while the other embraces pure human experience intertwined together to reveal truth and knowledge.

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a guy named Guy Montag who is a fireman. Usually firemen in our society put out fires, but the firemen in Montag’s society do the opposite. They start fires instead of putting them out. Books in Montag's society are forbidden to read, and if you are caught reading a book, it would be set on fire. Ray Bradbury wrote this book not to scare us away, but to warn us about the dangers of a government with too much authority, people having too much reliance on technology, and lastly the dangers of not having enough leisure.