Some of the themes shared between Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E would be the loss of individuality due to loss of time to think, the possibility of redemption because of the chance to start over and learn from the mistakes of the past, and security, because people draw comfort from what is easy and society catered to this need. Individuality is what makes everyone separate from each other, but in both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E, no one has any time to think because they are constantly bombarded with information and never given any time to think about any of it themselves. In WALL-E, people had no time to interact with each other or see the world around them because they were constantly occupied with the screens and technology that were in front …show more content…
One of the most important themes shared between Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E would be the possibility of redemption after everything has been destroyed because they’ll have the chance to start over. In WALL-E, the people had been living in space for seven hundred years because of the mistakes that had been made by their ancestors while they were up there. The plant that was brought up from earth represented the possibility of rebirth and new life, and that was what allowed them to go back to earth and begin to farm and start over. After everything had been destroyed because of humanity's mistakes, they still had the opportunity to come back and start again and learn from the mistakes of their ancestors. In Fahrenheit 451, Faber said to Montag on the topic of helping him, he said “‘The only way I could possibly listen to you would be if the fireman structure itself could be burnt’” (85). In another part of Fahrenheit 451, Granger actually spoke about the possibility of redemption, comparing humanity to a phoenix. “There was a damn silly bid called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up… But every time he burnt himself he sprang up out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again,” said Granger while sitting around a fire after the city had been destroyed. “‘And it looks like we’re doing the same …show more content…
Even Aristotle commented on it in his book “Peri Psyches,” which was the first book on human behavior. Paraphrased, the basic idea of what he said was that people seek pleasure and avoid pain. Seeking security is a theme in both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E because people draw comfort from what is nice and easy, and in an attempt to make people more comfortable, both of their societies removed all things that were not. In WALL-E, the people had to do no work themselves. Robots were at their sides at all moments to do everything for them. Even the captain didn’t know what had happened to earth, asking when he saw images of Earth, where the sky or the green grass was. All troubles and worries were removed from their lives, allowing them easy and security in that comfort. In Fahrenheit 451, despite the fact that her husband was clearly distressed, Mildred was more focussed about speaking about what the wallscreens had played that day. When Montag told Mildred, distressed and traumatised, what had happened that day, saying “‘We burnt a old woman with her books’”. Mildred responded by saying that “‘It’s a good thing the rug’s washable’” and “‘I went to Helen’s last night’” (49-50), completely disregarding what he said and changing the subject. She went on to speak about what she’d been watching and how she enjoyed going to Helen’s house and watching here parlour, all the while ignoring her
In the film Wall-E, produced by Disney and the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury illustrate similar themes of how technology can destroy a society. Through technology, humans do not directly communicate with one another, they only interact through screens. Through technology, humans are letting robots and other technology do everything for them, making humans seem inferior to the machines. These futuristic technology based societies are a warning to the modern society to control the human use and production of technology.
The novels Night and Fahrenheit 451 both carry messages about how society can be corrupted or destroyed. In the novel Night, the Jews do not listen to warnings about the incoming Germans, and most of them die in the Holocaust as a result, while in Fahrenheit 451, the citizens of that society have blind trust in authority and ignorance which eventually, at the end of the book, leads to the destruction of the society. Even though both books are written about different topics and of different times, they both share common messages about how to avoid the corruption and eventual destruction of a society.
In most stories we enjoy, may it be from childhood or something more recent there is many times a theme that shows a clear hero and a clear villain. But ordinarily this is not the case in real life, there are few times that this is quite that simple. There are many sides to each story, and sometimes people turn a blind eye to, or ignore the opposing side’s argument. But if we look at both sides of a situation in the stories we can more clearly understand what is going on, moreover the villains in the book or play would seem more real, instead of a horrible person being evil for no reason, these two people have their own agenda may it be a ruthless vengeance or misplaced trust.
Imagine living in a world where everything everyone is the same. How would you feel if you were not able to know important matters? Being distracted with technology in order to not feel fear or getting upset. Just like in this society, the real world, where people have their faces glued to their screen. Also the children in this generation, they are mostly using video games, tablets, and phones instead of going outside and being creative with one another. Well in Fahrenheit 451 their society was just like that, dull and conformity all around. But yet the people believed they were “happy” the way things were, just watching TV, not thinking outside the box.
The novels Ender's Game and Fahrenheit 451 take place in the future; the futures that the authors' have created are troubled and the world is approaching a disastrous end. Initially, Colonel Graff invites Ender to Battle School and tells him how important it is that he participates in the war. " 'The buggers may seem like a game to you now, Ender, but they damn near wiped us out last time. They had us cold, outnumbered and outweaponed. The only thing that saved us was that we had the most brilliant military commander we ever found. Call it fate, call it God, call it damnfool luck, we had Mazer Rackham.' " (p. 25) The future seems dark because the humans are trailing in bugger war. If the military could get another commander like Mazer Rackham, then the future would be brighter; Ender Wiggins trains to be the next Mazer Rackham. In Fahrenheit 451, people wanting to be entertained all the time causes the future to be mind numbing, bleak, and burnt. "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" (p. 141)
“We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.” ― Mary Renault. In many dystopian texts and films, there would always be a person who rebels and looks for change, like Jonas in the Giver,. In Pleasantville and Fahrenheit 451, the main characters are living in a dystopia and they rebel in diverse ways for a change.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Fahrenheit 451 share two main characters that are seemingly lost in the unknown. Both Chief Bromden and Guy Montag are protagonist in the respective novels. These two characters both have a false sense of reality; however, this is the only reality they know. Bromden and Montag have little sense of what the world they live in has to offer. However things start to change for both of these men when they start to receive guidance from their counterparts, Randle McMurphy and Clarisse McClellan. Both of these characters become the catalyst for the freedom and liberation that Bromden and Montag come to find.
Ray Bradbury, from small town America (Waukegan, Illinois), wrote two very distinctly different novels in the early Cold War era. The first was The Martian Chronicles (1950) know for its “collection” of short stories that, by name, implies a broad historical rather than a primarily individual account and Fahrenheit 451 (1953), which centers on Guy Montag. The thematic similarities of Mars coupled with the state of the American mindset during the Cold War era entwine the two novels on the surface. Moreover, Bradbury was “preventing futures” as he stated in an interview with David Mogen in 1980. A dystopian society was a main theme in both books, but done in a compelling manner that makes the reader aware of Bradbury’s optimism in the stories. A society completely frightened by a nuclear bomb for example will inevitably become civil to one another. Bradbury used his life to formulate his writing, from his views of people, to the books he read, to his deep suspicion of the machines. . The final nuclear bombs that decimate the earth transform the land. The reader is left with the autonomous house and its final moments as, it, is taken over by fire and consumed by the nature it resisted. Bradbury used science fantasy to analyze humans themselves and the “frontiersman attitude” of destroying the very beauty they find by civilizing it.
Ray Bradbury uses motifs all throughout his novel Fahrenheit 451. Some include fire, mirrors, and being both dead and alive. Although, the motif that’s being focused on here is fire. Fire is used as a motif extensively in Fahrenheit 451. It is used to represent many subjects such as destruction, life, and warmth. It’s amazing how it can be changed from something so violent to something filled with hope.
There are multiple examples of the degradation of human relationships found in Fahrenheit 451. These examples range from simple seashell radios, which are comparable to in-ear headphones, to a television set that spans over an entire wall, and also interacts with you as if it were human. If you take a look around you as you’re strolling down the street, you’ll notice the vast quantity of people that are plugged into the virtual realm, but disconnected from reality. Even today, you can notice the lack of communication in society.
...nd nature and the consequence of humankind overindulging in the superfluous luxuries that are beyond the necessities of food, shelter, clothing and fuel. Perhaps Wall-e is a message that the transcendentalist beliefs of Emerson and Thoreau should still be uplifted today, or maybe it was unintentional that the modern popularity of environmentally friendly movements encloses the fossil messages.
Few people in the world choose to stand out instead of trying to be like everyone else. In Fahrenheit 451, most people are the same because no one ever thinks about anything and their world moves so fast. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, the author uses characterization to show the individuality and sameness of the characters.
Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction book that still reflects to our current world. Bradbury does a nice job predicting what the world would be like in the future; the future for his time period and for ours as well. The society Bradbury describes is, in many ways, like the one we are living in now.
The theme in Fahrenheit 451 is similar to the theme of the Veldt, how the technology in both seemed to take control of people’s lives. The characters of the books didn’t know how to function without it. They couldn’t listen to anything or anyone else. In Fahrenheit 451, When Montag would try to talk to his wife, Mildred about
...very night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning”. In Fahrenheit 451, technology is so pervasive, so omnipresent, that it takes up all of everyone’s time. They are so immersed, they never have any time to think about anything, All of their free attention is sucked up by their addiction and reliance on technology, that they never think about their own happiness, or that of the people around them. They never stop to question their happiness, so they assume that they are happy. If one never thinks about it, then they automatically assume that it is okay. For instance, if one doesn’t think about an animal attacking them, then there must not be one, for if there was, then they’d be thinking about it. This is an instinctive trait in humans, and the Fahrenheit 451 government is using it to their advantage.