Theme Of Passage From Fahrenheit 451

between our world and the novel’s world, like why people break the law, how robots change the world, and how books are important in our world and in the world of fahrenheit 451.

In his futuristic novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury creates a society in which fireman who no longer protect the community burn books as a way to censor individual thought. Bradbury Illustrates the cold melancholy room of Guy Montag and his half dead wife in order to display the loss of happiness in their dystopian world due to technology.

The book Fahrenheit 451 is a book that promotes many themes and morals. There are more than just a few themes we can see in this story, some of them quite different to the others. Some of this has to do with violence, in the book we read about how young people go around killing others just like them or sometimes just because they are a bit different, which shouldn’t matter, another one about how the citizens are not satisfied with how they’re living their lives. What if many of them actually found appealing or amazing the art of writing but weren’t able to pursue that because in that society it wasn’t right to do that, it was more like a crime.

While the government may gain from restraining the thought of society, the people in society lose many important traits. Their whole culture has disappeared, people have lost all of their social skills. When Mildred and her friends are having a small party, Montag observes how they act together, and how they speak to each other, “Doesn’t everyone look nice!’ ‘Nice.’ ‘You look fine, Millie’ ‘Fine’ ‘Everyone looks swell.’ ‘Swell!” (89-90). The women haven’t talked about anything besides how everyone looks, a topic that they barely get into. The women can’t talk about war, because that’s been hidden from them, they also can’t debate anything, because debates and controversy have been eradicated from their whole society. On the other hand, Clarisse

“’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.

The citizens are taught that love comes from machines and not human beings. Millie thinks her ‘family’ is genuine love when they are just TV screens. People in the town are hiding their emotions through screens, and new inventions. Society has told them that feeling are unacceptable. When Montag reads Dover Beach, Mrs. Phelps starts sobbing because she is feeling for the first time.You can feel the anger rise in Mrs. Bowels as she gets upset and tells Montag to get rid of the

A phoenix comes back from the ashes and the firemen burn the book and hope they stay ashes.

Have you ever read a book you enjoyed a lot? Well if not read Fahrenheit 451. The author of the book is Ray Bradbury. There are many characters, but one of the main, main ones is Montag. Montag is a person who changes quite a bit throughout the story. Montag goes from being conservative to being a rebel.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, there are many different characters and each one plays a different role. One of the main characters, Guy Montag, is a fireman who takes pride in his work and enjoys burning books as a part of his job. His outlook about burning books changes after he meets Clarisse McClellan and Professor Faber. It’s very interesting how Montag’s way of thinking transforms overtime. He becomes very courageous about hiding books and is also curious about reading them. Throughout the novel his actions, ideas, and his feelings change as he starts to think for himself.

In Fahrenheit 151, a book written by Ray Bradbury, one of the major points of the plot is censorship. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist, begins to steal books from the fires he’s responded to and hides them inside his air vent. Beatty, his chief, explains how books used to be and how citizens were horrified and offended by them. Authors began to edit their books, trying not to offend anyone, and as a result, began to create dull and boring books. Society then decided to burn all the books then have more people offended by them. Montag then decides to talk to Faber, a retired professor who team up to start planting reprinted books in houses for firemen to find. After trying to show his wife about the books and how useful they are, his wife betrays Montag by burning his house down. This was society’s way of censorship, by banning books that promote free thinking.

Montag forms a connection with anyone who receptive to true friendship. Professor Faber, a former English professor, confesses that the current state of society, is due to the cowardice. Faber still has some rare books but considers that could put him in danger. “Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back.” (Bradbury, 78). Captain Beatty, chief of the firemen hates books, but previously had a passion for them. “Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths.” (Bradbury, 51) Many tones of irony are set throughout Fahrenheit 451. An example of ironic style is where Montag is introduced as a fireman. As the reader, we naturally think of firemen putting out fires, however Bradbury generates Montag as a fireman who starts fires. As the novel goes on, we see that several characters go against the law. Without books, distinctiveness is lost in the characters. This happens to be relevant to today’s society because books are becoming less popular, while technology is taking over. Books can be used as a helping tool, however our society today has become very lazy. Through over usage of technology it is easy to forget the true value that books

“His wife [Millie] stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable” (10). Now, it may sound like Millie is dead, but I can assure you that she isn’t. Mildred “Millie” Montag started off in the book as dead, but later on the book showed us how she fit society’s norm. She, like most people in this dystopia, is obsessed with her seashell radio and loves her “family” on the parlor wall more than she cares about her own husband, Guy. “Now, my ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!”

“You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time anymore for anyone else. You’re one of the few who put up with me. That’s why I think it’s strange you’re a fireman, it just doesn’t seem right for you, somehow.”(21)

In F451 one of the main problems in the story was nobody able to read books because they were all ordered to be burned by the government officals, it was censored. Censorship does nothing but hurt the people through distrust and cause conspiracies which hurt more than the truth. In the book it shows people slowly turning away from the government as we learn about the teenager in the beginning and later in the book when we learn about the people who live in the woods who reads books.

Through poetry, literary fiction, and many other forms of media, authors can easily convey intense and powerful themes. Certain works show the story of those who push away the ordinary for something even greater. While relationships are lost and people disappear, life for those portrayed in the works becomes extraordinary. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and songs like “Come To Your Senses”, “Let It Go”, and “Goodbye” allow characters to push away from societal normatives.