The Importance Of Freedom In Fahrenheit 451

Individuality and independence are valued differently by each world, but the majority of people in both communities are talentless and suppress the talented. In the futuristic American society, everything becomes so mundane and programmed that people eventually become the same. Beatty tells Montag, “[Everyone] must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy” (Bradbury 55). Everyone in Fahrenheit 451 has been conditioned to become identical and forced to be the same. The entire community has suppressed individuality, and people do not think for themselves. On the other hand, modern-day society allows free thought and expression, encouraging people to exercise their autonomy.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury uses many allusions to show the oppression in their society. Bradbury uses alludes to the book of Ecclesiastes to show how there is no individual thought in the Fahrenheit 451 society. He also alludes to Thomas Paine’s book Common Sense because it inspires individual thought and uprise against the government. Last, Bradbury alludes to Henry David Thoreau’s book, Walden to show how the Fahrenheit 451 society should be open to positive change. The use of the book of Ecclesiastes shows oppression in Montag's life and those around him.

“There must be something in books, something we can imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”(Pg. 51) Main character Guy Montag is a servant to a society that is controlled by censorship and the fear of knowledge; Montag has spent his life burning books, to prevent the spread knowledge. But a series of events cause Montag's mind to change, and result in him breaking free from his society. The internal struggle of dynamic character Guy Montag, as to whether he should go on believing the lies his society has told him, or risk his life for something as simple as words on a page, brings readers into the corrupt society of Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray

The idea of free speech is nearly universally accepted in the modern world. Places where free speech is limited are almost never a truly positive society. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, free speech is changed by removing mediums to express ideas and by threatening punishments for speaking out. Bradbury warns that the consequences of these alterations are a close-minded approach to life and an addiction to mindless entertainment.

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

Firstly, Montag faces the conflict of having to burn down a house with a woman in it, which led him to thinking that something important may be hidden within the books that could be different from what he has learning in this new version of society; Montag becomes more curious through this event and starts to wonder. Eventually, the protagonist is so deeply engrossed in his curiosity that “his hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest” (Bradbury 34). This quote illustrates

Ban books or burn them? Ray Bradbury wrote his famous novel Fahrenheit 451 in 1953 fantasizing about a world in which books were banned, and when a book was found it was burnt and destroyed. Little did he know that his thought of books being banned could actually happen and that it would be one of his own. Today Fahrenheit 451 is being banned and challenged in schools all across America. How ironic that a book about books being banned is now being banned around the country. A prize winning book by a prize winning author is now being questioned as to whether it is a good book to teach in an English class. Though Fahrenheit 451 may contain controversial elements such as language, discussion of

Rules exist to keep order. Rules exist to prevent chaos and evil from running rampant in society. Rules, however, can exist to limit the freedoms of the people that are meant to be protected instead. In these cases, do the people have the right to break these restrictions? Author Ray Bradbury, in his post-modern novel Fahrenheit 451, illustrates this idea in the form of a story of a fireman, Guy Montag, who takes a stand against the censorship and oppression of free thought present in the novel’s setting. Using dystopian elements, Bradbury brings to attention the mindless use of technology as well as the decline of meaningful thoughts. In comparison to Bradbury’s literary work, Patrick Henry’s historical speech titled “Speech to the Second

Have you ever not wanted to read a book but have to read it for a class assignment well Fahrenheit 451 is a good example of what happens when you don't read. Fahrenheit 451 is a valuable piece of literature because it can tell you what happens when people don't read books like we don’t. It may be what the world will look like in 20 years. It can make people want to read more.

In a conversation with his wife, he said, " ‘There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing’ “(Bradbury 51). By saying this, he is showing that the old woman really got to him. The woman challenged his viewpoint of books by staying in her house because she believed the books were more valuable than her own life. After witnessing this, Montag begins to steal and read the books that he is supposed to burn, and starts to understand their purpose. The old woman’s actions challenged his viewpoint which started his character change. Ultimately, through the first part of this novel, Guy Montag is depicted as a law-abiding citizen but later starts to change when an old woman challenges his viewpoint of books.

INTRODUCTION. In my English class at Capital High School, we recently read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and we discussed whether freedom is really free. In my opinion, I think that freedom is free, but it has its limitations. People always complain about not being able to do the things they want to do but it’s all about contentment. It’s all in the mind and in the way we see things. We, the citizens of the United States, are trained to practice our rights such as the Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion which I believe is very significant to a person, but nowadays, people tend to abuse it and when someone tries to correct them, the tendency is that they would get mad and would answer back saying that they’re free to say whatever they want to say. I personally think that this shouldn’t be our mindset towards freedom. Freedom is free, but we should not abuse it nor take advantage of it in the wrong way. Freedom is important because it is a way of expressing yourself and a way for people to get to know you as a person that’s why this is significant to me. My main goal in this letter is to express and tell you my opinion about the abuse of our freedom by connecting two articles and the book, Fahrenheit 451.

The First Amendment grants the freedom of speech for all United States citizens. Envision not possessing this right, but also not being able to think freely. If a future filled with no individual expression and everyone and everything looking the same came to mind, you were close, but not quite there. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is about a war ridden society that restricts the freedom of thought through the practice of banning and burning books. An analysis of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 displays change is needed because it opens one’s eyes which is illustrated by his use of character interaction, detailed events, and revealing the character’s thoughts.

Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451, people have many choices to make that dictate the outcome of certain situations. While Beatty tries to guilt trip Montag to give up the books, Faber says through the earpiece,“You’ll try to judge them and make your decision as to which way to jump, or fall.” Because of the example Faber gave, his wise words bring people to know that with every given position, people can implement choice into situations that seem without choice. When it comes to situations that don’t have an apparent choice, people can choose between resisting and following through willingly. In the same motivational speech, Faber concludes, “It’s up to you now to know with which ear you’ll listen.”

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the author creates a picture of a society that resembles our present-day society in a variety of ways. Although a society in which government has total control over its citizens seems to be a little extreme, there are definitely clues that can be seen today that suggest that we are headed in the same direction. Some of the resemblances between the society in Fahrenheit 451 and our society today are the governments’ hypocrisy, the gullibility of the citizens who fully support the government, and the fact that books are becoming rather extinct due to advances in modern technology.

Leonard Nimoy looked down at the script and cleared his throat as he began to say “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher” (Nimoy). Nimoy, a science fiction super star in his own regard was reading from Ray Bradbury’s “April 2005: Usher II” to an audience nationwide. Ray Bradbury had created the book as a pre-emptive strike towards censorship that would be followed up by “Fahrenheit 451”. As he considered the greatest threat to the world to be the suppression