Fahrenheit 451 Knowledge Vs Knowledge Essay

If the society keeps reflecting any knowledge or memory that is given to them like the government tells them to do, they may meet an early doom, but on the other hand, if they accept the know-how and memory like the rebels, the world would be better. If the society keeps going down the narrow and dark path, the whole world may end up like Montag’s city. Everyone in the society has stayed ignorant of the wars that have happened in their lifetimes because the government has said that they are all small wars. However Montag realizes the truth that was staring them in their face. “Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How the hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022!”(Bradbury 69) he tells Mildred. Even as Montag is proving his point, Mildred just stays quiet and grasps the first opportunity to escape. While the odd one with an understanding, in this case Montag, has accepted and used it, Mildred does not because that is what her thoughts tell her to do as a citizen of her twisted country. But one day these signals became reality, and after the bombings, Montag sees what his hometown has become and,‘"It's flat," he said, a long time later.

And if they keep going down this road, they will not have a very bright future unless they take a leaf out of the rebel’s book and learn to keep the insight and memories. This may be hard because the mainstream society has now learned to reject any knowledge and memory and have become thoughtless, voiceless, robots. They have learned to be this way, thanks to the government who has trained them to be this way for their own power and wealth gain. Furthermore, as a person named Marion Zimmer Bradley once said, “There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that is gone