In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury has shown us a society that we might become. By analyzing Beatty’s speech, I found out the main point of his speech is that the people have done this to themselves. I have also found out how society has become this way and how it remains. There are four main reasons of how society became this way. My first reason is, society became too large for books too have any relevance. This is one of the main events because if society never became too large, the following events that caused society to become this way, would of never happened. Another example of how society became this way is because of groups. Every group in the society was offended by some type of book. The books became a source of unhappiness instead of knowledge and entertainment. Another reason is people like simplicity. Everyone …show more content…
Already I see how its coming true. For example we are depending on our advanced technology so much. In the book the society is depending on the technology to. If all our technology happened to shutdown the society in the book would not make it and in our world most of us wouldn't make it either. Another example is that we have stopped physically communicating, just like the book. In our world we text so much that I am sure that most of us find it hard to start a conversation with someone. In the book it is so unusual to talk to someone. My third example is that the government has so much power. We, the people, are not doing anything about it. In the book, the government has made it a law that the people can’t have any books. And the people of the society are too stupid to let the government have that power. My last example is kids die often. In the book, its usual for kids to die while racing cars. Today, we hear about teenagers shooting people in the news all the time. We are closer to the society in the book then we
“Remember when we had to actually do things back in 2015, when people barely had technology and everyday life was so difficult and different? When people read and thought and had passions, dreams, loves, and happiness?” This is what the people of the book Fahrenheit 451 were thinking, well that is if they thought at all or even remembered what life used to be like before society was changed.
As you can see there are many reason why a society can fail or get destroyed and it can perpetuate destruction of a society also. When people don’t question authority and when they are ignorant or naive it can lead to the destruction of a society as seen through the two texts of Night and Fahrenheit 451 we can see that it is clearly evident that the destruction of a society is clearly happening if these to are evident.
Not all rules are always agreed on by every individual. Oftentimes people tend to keep to themselves about their differentiating views, but others fight for what they believe in. In order to make any type of progress for a specific cause, effort and determination needs to be put into a person’s every attempt towards a positive development. Individuals who rebel against an authoritarian society are often faced with the challenges to fight for what they believe in in order to make a change.
At what point can a society be described as dystopian? Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, tells the story of a man named Guy Montag who lives in a dystopian society where life isn’t as great as the government makes it out to be. Our society is slowly becoming more and more similar to the dystopian society found in Fahrenheit 451 in the fact that many families aren’t as stable as most might desire them to be, the government mostly ignores the country’s ideals and only focuses on its own for the sake of its own benefit, and many of society’s ideas are being disrespected or noted as activities that people shouldn’t be allowed to indulge in while in this country through censorship.
Fahrenheit 451’s Relevance to Today Fahrenheit 451’s relevance to today can be very detailed and prophetic when we take a deep look into our American society. Although we are not living in a communist setting with extreme war waging on, we have gained technologies similar to the ones Bradbury spoke of in Fahrenheit 451 and a stubborn civilization that holds an absence of the little things we should enjoy. Bradbury sees the future of America as a dystopia, yet we still hold problematic issues without the title of disaster, as it is well hidden under our democracy today. Fahrenheit 451 is much like our world today, which includes television, the loss of free speech, and the loss of the education and use of books. Patai explains that Bradbury saw that people would soon be controlled by the television and saw it as the creators chance to “replace lived experience” (Patai 2).
In today’s world, there is an abundance of social problems relating to those from the novel Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist Montag exhibits drastic character development throughout the course of the novel. Montag lives in a world where books are banned from society and no one is able to read them. Furthermore, Montag has to find a way to survive and not be like the rest of society. This society that Montag lives has became so use to how they live that it has affected them in many ways. Bradbury’s purpose of Fahrenheit 451 was to leave a powerful message for readers today to see how our world and the novel’s world connect through texting while driving, censorship and addiction.
Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 leads from an average beginning by introducing a new world for readers to become enveloped in, followed by the protagonist’s descent into not conforming to society’s rules, then the story spirals out of control and leaves readers speechless by the actions taken by the main character and the government of this society. This structure reinforces the author’s main point of how knowledge is a powerful entity that would force anyone to break censorship on a society.
In the book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury shows the importance of being aware of society through the change of Montag’s complacency and the contrasting views of the characters.
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.
Society in the novel has reached the point where even warfare becomes something that no longer involves people as the city is destroyed at the end of the story by atomic bombs, relatively new technology at the time the novel was written. In the end when Montag was talking to these people that held books in their minds the war was ending, “Once the bomb release was yanked, it was over. Now, a full three seconds, all of the tie in history, before the bombs struck, the enemy ships themselves were gone half around the visible world, like bullets in which a savage islander might not believe because they were invisible; yet the heart is suddenly shattered, the body falls in separate motions, and the blood is astonished to be feed on the air; the
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.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. This materialistic society is where Bradbury believed society today is headed<THE TENSES HERE ARE A LITTLE CONFUSING.>. The materialistic society in Fahrenheit 451 created through Bradbury's cynic views of society<THIS IS A FRAGMENT SENTANCE.> His views of society are over-exaggerated in contrast with today's events, especially in the areas of censorship and media mediocrity.
Albert Einstein once said “…Imagination is more important than knowledge…” but what if people lived in a world that restrained them from obtaining both knowledge and imagination. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Montag, expresses his emotions by showing the importance of social values. Throughout the novel, the secretive ways of a powerful force are exploited, the book also shows the faults in a new technological world, and the author shows the naïve way an average citizen in a dystopian society thinks.
Of all literary works regarding dystopian societies, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is perhaps one of the most bluntly shocking, insightful, and relatable of them. Set in a United States of the future, this novel contains a government that has banned books and a society that constantly watches television. However, Guy Montag, a fireman (one who burns books as opposed to actually putting out fires) discovers books and a spark of desire for knowledge is ignited within him. Unfortunately his boss, the belligerent Captain Beatty, catches on to his newfound thirst for literature. A man of great duplicity, Beatty sets up Montag to ultimately have his home destroyed and to be expulsed from the city. On the other hand, Beatty is a much rounder character than initially apparent. Beatty himself was once an ardent reader, and he even uses literature to his advantage against Montag. Moreover, Beatty is a critical character in Fahrenheit 451 because of his morbid cruelty, obscene hypocrisy, and overall regret for his life.
A society lacking knowledge, drive, impulse, and with blatant disregard for death. This is the world of Guy Montag in Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. In this story, Guy Montag is stuck between the life he has always lived as a fireman and a newfound perspective on the beauty in awareness. Where books are banned and his job is to start them on fire instead of taming conflagrations, his increasing tendencies to question his own decisions and surroundings as a whole evoke extensive repercussions. Throughout the novel, Bradbury alludes to a future where apathy and a necessity of constant action are the cultural norms, where Clarisse McClellan and Mildred Montag live highly competing lives, and in which the themes of happiness and