In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The dystopian American society presented in Fahrenheit 451 has an omnipotent government that inhibits the people through censorship and surveillance. When the book was written in the 1950s, spies, nuclear weapons, and new technology had just arouse from the Cold War and gave Americans an ominous and pessimistic perspective on their future. Throughout the opening pages, the government's absolute power allows them to manipulate reality and regulate the life of the populace. This adversely affects the life of the citizens and restricts their ability to think freely and be cognizant of the authoritative regime.

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury that depicts a futuristic American society where books are banned and independent thought is persecuted. Bradbury uses his imagination to take a hard look at a world consumed by technology, and he presents predictions about pleasure, violence and anti-intellectualism that are alarmingly similar to the modern American society. Notably, in both societies people find pleasure in entertainment that is endlessly preoccupying. Second, people are violent and careless. Finally, anti-intellectualism and suppression of independent thought affect both societies, as firemen ban books in Fahrenheit 451 and, in the

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel published in 1950. The novel takes place in the futuristic American society where technology dominates in people’s lives. This is an era of prosperous technological advances, but people’s life quality is bad. The people live their life without knowledge, wisdom, and self-awareness. People are not critical because all books are banned, and illegal. The people think the same thing and they look alike also. The government uses propaganda to manipulate the people. Fear is the effective method the government uses to control them.

In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury tells the story of a dystopic world where books are burned by firemen because they are prohibited. By presenting this, he makes a point on how books are essential and at the same time warning readers. He was trying to say,” If this happens, then this will happen.” He visualized this society in this book, based on his society, which is parallel to our society now. In the dystopic Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury examines his society at the time, and he admonishes readers about possible aspects of future societies, especially mass media, technological advancement, and peoples’ mental health.

Book-burning is the first thing that is explained about this future based society of Fahrenheit 451. Burning books is the obliteration of the single thought on paper or in one word- censorship. Books are considered evil because they make people question and think. All intellectual curiosity and thirst for knowledge must be quelled for the good of the state — for the good of conformity. Without ideas, everyone conforms, and as a result, everyone should be happy. When books and new ideas are available to people, conflict and unhappiness occur. Some of the many different motifs in the novel Fahrenheit 451 are conveyed through the use of various sardonic lines and connotations planted throughout the book. On the matter of technology and modernization it explains how TV reigns supreme in the future because of the "happiness" it offers. People are content when they don’t have to think, or so the story goes. TV aside, technology is the government’s means of oppression, but also provides the renegade’s opportunity to subvert. Rules and order is another popular topic written into the book. It is stated that “All books can be beaten down with reason.” This was said by Captain Betty, a quote ironically coming from a book itself. Much of the restrictions on the general populous are self-enforced. The government has taken away the citizens’ ability to dissent and marred all dissatisfaction with a cheap version of "happiness," a.k.a. TV. This means

In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, this society is very has a lot of censorship and government control because the people are narrow minded, have lost the thought of humanity in their souls, and scared of what life could be like with imagination. In this book people burn books because the government has banned them. Everyone feel sad and no one has opinions. This society is very different but similar in some way to our own today.

In the book Fahrenheit 451 the theme is a society/world that revolves around being basically brain washed or programmed because of the lack of people not thinking for themselves concerning the loss of knowledge, and imagination from books that don't exist to them. In such stories as the Kurt Vonnegut's "You have insulted me letter" also involving censorship to better society from vulgarity and from certain aspects of life that could be seen as disruptive to day to day society which leads to censorship of language and books. Both stories deal with censorship and by that society is destructed in a certain way by the loss of knowledge from books.

Guy Montag, a prominent and respected man in his community, suddenly becomes unhappy with his life devoted to the burning of books as a fireman. Though he struggles to find his way, he becomes obsessed with rebelling against the system he had worked so hard to protect. Mildred Montag, Guy’s wife, is a lifeless woman with no touch to reality. She spends her days glued to television screens, suicidal and disconnected from those around her.

Although our real life society is similar to the society in Fahrenheit 451, they are also very different. For example, in the Fahrenheit 451 society, books are illegal, and firemen burn down houses. “Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.” (Bradbury 60). The fire captain says this quote because it is against the law to read or even have books, and he thinks fire cleanses society. But people can read and own books in our society, which I think is a very good

The society portrayed in the film Fahrenheit 451 directed by François Truffaut also shows us a totalitarianism state where the government has complete authority and control over the citizens by discouraging reading and banning books, this enables the government to be able to gain more power and control the society more easily through the law of making literature illegal by tracking down books and destroying them, which was a tactic used by the government to gain control and power over the society since banning books helped interfere with people expressing their emotions and also helped eliminate independent thinking, therefore it allowed everyone to be all alike, “You see, it’s…It’s no good Montag, we’ve all got to be alike. The only way to be happy is for everyone to be equal.” This shows us how the society are manipulated and conditioned to think this way of accepting the way their society is and how books are bad.

America’s very roots were born from the words and thoughts of her people; but that could all be put to rest in an instant , the very bedrock of our nation is put to question by it’s citizens and their lack of motivation. Fahrenheit 451 was written to prove the potential future of a society where ignorance is bliss and knowledge is not valued. Ray Bradbury uses a myriad of different strategies to demonstrate the true nature of the 451 society, for example the characters that surround Guy Montag show us the many faces of the community.

The title of the book I read was Fahrenheit 451. The book was written by Ray Bradbury and was published in 1951. This book is about a dystopian America where there is extreme censorship and any media (mainly books) that questions the government is burned by a branch called the Firemen. The main character whose name is Guy Montag is a fireman who begins to realize that what he’s doing is wrong after meeting a young girl named Clarisse. As the book goes on it is revealed that Montag had been stashing books in his vents for a long time and tried to show them to his wife, but she doesn’t want anything to do with it. His wife Mildred towards the end of the book actually ends up reporting him to the Firemen, when she does this Montag is at work and shows up on the call to witness his wife get into a taxi and leave him. Then to throw salt in the wound the Fireman Captain Beatty forces Montag to burn his own house to the ground before being arrested for possession of illegal media, but after Montag burns the house he turns on Beatty burning him with the flamethrower and knocking out the other two firemen before fleeing. After having finished reading it I thought that this book was really good, it kept my attention the whole time and had a big surprise at the end. (The full ending is not included in the summary.) This book also has many sad moments that let you relate to the protagonist.

How does our society in USA compare to the society in Fahrenheit 451. Our society is slowly changing to the society of Fahrenheit 451.

“And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (Bradbury 113). This first quote is one of many quotes from the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury that exhibits how Guy Montag the main character has changed throughout the whole book. With the help of some friends he meets along the way, his beliefs about books and his life working as a fireman change drastically.

The people of the society in Fahrenheit 451 barely communicate and don't care about others. People in their dystopian society don't have real relationships or even talk about things. Everyone talks about the exact same things, nothing important. Nor does anyone shows that they love one another. For instance when Montag was talking to Clarisse in the beginning of the book he describes how she differs