The Conformity Of Society In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

If you are in a room where everyone else has something in common except for you, what do you do? Maybe pretend to share their ideas. Maybe leave the room. But generally there are very few who would face the negative attention that is created by situations such as this. No one ever wants to be the ‘odd man out.’ Yet, without controversy how can people grow to have established morals and motivation in life? This is exactly what Ray Bradbury was trying to explain in his novel, Fahrenheit 451. His main character, Guy Montag, starts as a government pawn, a fireman who had the job of burning books. He blends in to society until one day he meets a young girl, who for the first time in his life makes him ask ‘why.’ Through his struggle of finding

Fahrenheit 451 is a book by Ray Bradbury, written after World War II and it examines the corruption of technology in a dystopian society. This book explains how a dystopian society works and how people are so attached to television and cars and do not enjoy the natural world. People in a dystopian society are full of fear and sadness. They do not have equality or freedom, they are all so soaked up in technology that it is illegal for them to do simple stuff, such as, reading books. The book, Fahrenheit 451 explains how firefighters start fires rather than stopping them. A firefighter’s job is do burn books, since books are illegal to have because they go against the power of technology and modernization. In a dystopian society, people should be unhappy, unequal, violent, and brutalized and that is what is exactly being seen throughout this book. As Ray Bradbury captures the attention of many readers, he captures our attention on how the future could be if technology would become so extreme. Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451 is not about control, but it is a novel about how television destroys curiosity in reading literature.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Modern World The futuristic world that Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, so vividly describes is frighteningly close to our own. It might not seem so at first glance, but if you take a closer look, you'll find that Bradbury wasn't far off the mark with his idea of what our lives would be like in 50 years. As he envisioned, technology would be extremely sophisticated, families would start becoming distant, and entertainment would take a more significant role in our lives. The problems at the present might not be as extreme as Bradbury's, however, if left unchecked, they could grow to be just as monstrous as he predicted.

People like to believe that the idea of conformity versus individuality is as clear as black and white. It is either side with society and conform or retain individuality and go against the norms. When it comes down to it, individuality and conformity are not foreign concepts. We see the idea executed in everyday life. In his novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury reveals that individuality and conformity is not strictly two sides, but rather, a spectrum with many views in between. Bradbury expands on the theme of conformity versus individuality in society through his characters Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, and Captain Beatty.

In Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, the protagonist in the book, lives in a period of time where television is imperative while literature is on the verge of eradicating. Bradbury portrays a society where entertainment is not only a distraction, but it becomes a dominant aspect in the way individuals function in society. Furthermore, Montag’s ideal world is a world that sees a concept in books rather than television. We live in a world full of advanced technology, however there are drawbacks in the midst of the benefits. Fahrenheit 451 is an example that depicts the disadvantages that comes with the overuse of technology.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 features a fictional and futuristic firefighter named Guy Montag. As a firefighter, Montag does not put out fires. Instead, he starts them in order to burn books and, basically, knowledge to the human race. He does not have any second thoughts about his responsibility until he meets seventeen-year-old Clarisse McClellan. She reveals many wonders of the world to Montag and causes him to rethink what he is doing in burning books. After his talks with her, the society’s obedience to the law that bans knowledge, thinking, and creativity also increasingly distresses him. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows conformity in the futuristic America through schooling, leisure, and fright.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a display of how humans are relying more and more on technology for entertainment at the price of their ability for intellectual development. It is a novel about technological dystopia, often compared to other novels such as, George Orwell’s 1984 and Asimov Ender’s Game. Although today’s technology has not quite caught up with Bradbury’s expectations, the threat of having his vision of a dystrophic society is very realistic. He sees a futuristic society in which this submission of thought is highly valued. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury displays a futuristic utopian society where "the people did not read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations" (Mogen, Pg. 111).

In the book Fahrenheit 451, the author expresses his fears about how technology can affect one 's humanity. Members of the society in this book are unable to have relationships with themselves and others because of the technology surrounding their lives. Media is leaving a negative effect on people’s ability to memorize and remember events in their lives. But once people leave behind all the technology being used every day, they can find their humanity. The author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, expresses the dangers and his fears for our future because of technology.

Today, teens are spending one third of their day using technology according to a new study released by Common Sense Media. That is a whole nine hours spent mindlessly surfing the web or watching cat videos. In the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury writes a social commentary on what the future may look like if technology continues to be overused. In his dystopia, all books are banned and the government controls almost every aspect of people’s lives by brainwashing them with technology. Firemen burn down people’s houses who have books, Guy Montag being one of them. Slowly, Montag starts to question his society and steal books, to the dismay of his technology obsessed wife, Mildred. Bradbury uses Mildred as a symbol of societal corruption to highlight the dangers of excessively using technology.

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, there are concepts present around the dystopian, book burning society. In the era where the book takes place, firefighters start fires to burn book that are outlawed by the government. The story revolves around Guy Montague, a firefighter, and his dramatic realization that books are not sinister. In the novel, there are three main concepts, conformity, depersonalization and the pasteurization and condensation of knowledge to make the plot and situations more relatable to readers. Ray gives a lot of examples of conformity in his writing.

Society can change a person positively and negatively. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Mildred is the wife of the main character Guy Montag. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, & unfeeling. Mildred is self-centered because she always thinks about herself.

In Conclusion over the years since Ray Bradbury has written Fahrenheit 451 the world has slowly been taking advice on how to become more ignorant and illiterate. While you would think that the advancing of technology would make us smarter all it is doing is dumbing us down. Most people can show you how to work any smartphone but can not show you how to do a two step equation in the algebra of telling you what the definition of captious is. The technology today is taking over the ability of face to face communication, the knowledge of proper English is also not very well known either. Young children today are learning how to use phones and tablets before they can even piece a puzzle together. Even though we are more literate and can comprehend more than they could in

When predictions about life are made, it is hard for one to believe them because they are not certain if those predictions will happen or not. However, when predictions that were made in the past begin to happen in the life of a person living in today's world, they must be believed. In 1953, Mr. Ray Bradbury wrote one of his famous novels, Fahrenheit 451, which was written predicting a future overtaken by technology. Even though it was not very obvious at that time, this novel was very successful in examining social problems in its time and in our time as well in various ways. Some of the social problems in the 1950s that are examined in the novel include the red scare, communism, and McCarthyism. In our present day, the social problems that are examined in that same novel include overuse of technology and media.

To begin with, Rush’s song “Subdivisions” have lyrics that go with the theme of conformity vs individuality in Fahrenheit 451. These lines in the song represent this connection, “Detached and subdivided/In the mass production zone/Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone” (Alex Zivojinovich). These lines relate to when Montag decides that he wants to start reading books to see if what Captain Beatty said was true. He decided to do this to see what is so wrong with books that they have to be burned. The novel states, “ We can’t do anything. We can’t burn these. I want to look at them once. Then if what the Captain says is true, we’ll burn them together. You must help me.” (Bradbury 63). Montag is begging his wife, Mildred, to risk the

Modern society nurtures knowledge, individuality, and happiness, whereas the community in Fahrenheit 451 encourages ignorance, sameness, and dissatisfaction. Compared to the dystopian Fahrenheit 451, real life appears as an utopia. The community featured in Fahrenheit 451 still contrasts with modern-day society, but unfortunately, the two may not be as different in the future. Fahrenheit 451 is a reflection of of the current world, which is on its way to being just as absorbed in technology, education deprived, mundane, and senseless. Perhaps books will soon go out of print and only be available electronically, when people will eventually stop reading them altogether. At the rate technology is produced, the industry may quickly catch up to