Theme Of Happiness In Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel of little happiness. Society as a whole has become content with watching television and wasting away their lives, while a few individuals ponder the true meaning of life and happiness. Bradbury throughout the book depicts what our world could become, and almost sends a warning to the reader on how to avoid this unfriendly fate.

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 presents readers with multiple themes. In the fictional society of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, books are banned and firemen create fires instead of putting them out. Bradbury portrays the society as dystopian. Bradbury crafted the novel to be interpreted intellectually. The characters claim to be happy. However, the reader can conclude otherwise. Bradbury creates a question for the reader to answer: Is ignorance bliss or does the ability to think for oneself create happiness? Bradbury shows the importance of self-reflection, happiness and the ability to think for oneself as well as isolation due to technology, and the importance of nature and animals. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury conveys the stories’ themes through characterization and symbols.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the character Mildred to convey how many people in society are discontent, even though they may seem happy. Throughout the novel Bradbury creates many characters that seem satisfied with their life of work and electronics, but Mildred in particular suggests that even one radiating happiness can still be broken and depressed inside.

Have you ever wondered when society breaks down and there is no such thing as happiness? In Fahrenheit 451 firemen don’t put out fires, they are the ones that make the fires. Books in their society are banned and when people are found with books they are burned and are thrown into the asylum. Though people think they are happy they really aren’t. They are actually just numb to pain.

The novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, deals with a futuristic apocalypse that happens to an entire society and creates an new opportunity for the book’s main character Guy Montag. This apocalypse needed to happen because it provides Montag with meaning, which allows him to fully transform. Through Montag’s experiences to find answers and happiness, he begins to have realization and goes through a transformation from being the representation of evil and destruction to good.

Happiness Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Montag goes through many trials and hardships that changed him dramatically over the course of the book. When we are brought into the book, we see that he is not happy at all with really anything. He is not content with anything in his life and is curious about all the things he shouldn’t be; according to the government. He wants to know more about books… but in the world, books are illegal. Supposedly, they cause you to think against the government and can cause hate and unwanted behavior.

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

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

People's values, views, and demeanor change as the meet new people and encounter events that impact his/her life. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, he describes events that Guy Montag, a firefighter, has come across that have impacted the way he thinks and acts within his community. Montag's view on the society he lives in has changed drastically because of the people he has come into contact with and because of the events he has experienced throughout this novel.

Imagine cruising on the road at seventy miles per hour then suddenly on the side of the road you see a herd of cattle and slow down to admire the scenery, now imagine being jailed for two days for driving too slowly and breaking the law. It sounds ridiculous right? Well in the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury he describes a utopian society where everything is perfect and everyone is perfectly happy thanks to the burning of books. The unlucky contestant to this jail time was Clarisse’s uncle; Clarisse is a seventeen year old girl that likes to question the ordinary and make them extraordinary. Montag is a thirty year old fireman who burns books for a living saving the world from disruption of peace, never once questioning his purpose or happiness until one day when Clarisse does. After this Montag sets off on a journey trying to find the missing pieces to life’s puzzle. The three things he discovers that are missing are the quality of information that when compared to our society today is not too far off from theirs, the second is leisure to digest information and the third is the right to carry out actions.

Imagine not knowing you were not happy for years. In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag did not realize he was not happy until a young girl named Clarisse McClellan came along and questioned his happiness. Therefore, what is happiness? Happiness is a goal that everyone wants to achieve in life.

Many difficult circumstances in life sometimes lead people to do things maybe a little differently. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953), It was exactly like that, except many more serious changes. This title tells a story of a man named Guy Montag whose job was to be a fireman and burn most books in a dystopian world, but through many situations he later finds out that his job isn't right, so he decides to repair society and to teach them to read books after a nuclear bombing happens over the large area. During the story, Montag's viewpoints about society change drastically throughout the story. The burning alive of the woman, Clarisse, and when Montag read the book to mildred's friends were all situations that greatly impacted Montag's viewpoints on the society.

Books written about a dystopian society come as a warning, one that we should all take. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was written in the 1950’s. Somehow, the books warning is becoming all too real today. Fahrenheit 451 is written as a warning that society is becoming so warped, with people getting everything they want, that happiness will only come from physical items instead of experiences or getting dissolved into a good story. In the novel, Montag is living in a society that follows this idea of gaining happiness from physical items and books are illegal to posses. There is no typical family who love each other, play together and are happy. Instead happiness is confusing and Montag realises that no one is actually happy and that he himself is unhappy. Because of this, Montag leaves and sets out to find happiness in illegal literature instead of physical items. This goes to show that happiness is something humans need and desire. Without proper forms of happiness in experiences of love, travel, literature, etc, a society becomes monotonous and dependent on money. If society is dependent on materialism, human relationship and intellectual pursuits will be at a deficit.

Shall one remove the sack placed so cruelly upon one’s head by the crooks one calls society? Revealing the truths that were hidden far away in the corner of the world, Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 as a way to open the eyes of the reader, allowing them to understand a dystopia of hidden truths. Placed in futuristic times, the world in which Guy Montag lives is grim, in the eyes of an onlooker. From the eyes of Guy Montag however, nothing was wrong. He has the job that he loves, a wife to come home to every night, everything is safe, or in other words, peaceful. Or is it? Such is the path they walk, hidden from truth and they have no reason to suspect that what they know is anything but. Montag is in several cases blind.

According to Storm Jameson, “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” Jameson suggests that happiness is not just having fun, but it is to be present in the moment and to make connections with others. Happiness is rarely found in the novel Fahrenheit 451, because this joyless society defines “fun” as driving with the need for speed and with an intention of killing small animals and people or the deadening white noise of endless television viewing. The novel Fahrenheit 451 conveys this very idea as the protagonist Guy Montag and others in his society are unable to achieve full happiness. Author Ray Bradbury suggests the truth of Jameson’s statement primarily through