Fahrenheit 451 Values Analysis

The values of man In Fahrenheit 451 there are quite a few different values. The first values we are introduced to are Guy Montag's, who values, ironically, are the only ones who change throughout the book. At the beginning we see that he loves his job and is content with his life. "It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed... Later, going to sleep, he would feel the firey smile still gripped by his face muscles. It never went away that smile, it never ever went away as long as he remembered." (Bradbury 1) But later on in the book we see that his values have been changed. Largely by Clarisse, the woman who burned herself with her books, Faber, and his own reading of books. His values, by the end of the book, are more about giving society what has been taken from them, for so long: or the recipe for happiness, as Faber calls it. Quality, leisure, and the ability to act on the first two. (Bradbury ) Mildred is in the novel simply to show us what the average joe (or jane) is like. "In a story of extordinary people—Montag, Clarisse, Faber, Granger, and even

He seems to value the struggle for things of better value, as made clear by his character Montag. It does not seem like he thinks of suicide as weakness, more like just an escape. He obviously fears the route that television may go down. He believes it will lead to hours of mindless waste and an emptiness in society. Mildred's values are obviously the ones he finds most destructive. "I invite your attention to the television schedules of all networks... Here you will find only fleeting and spasmodic reference to the fact that this nation is in mortal danger." (Murrow) Television itself isn't bad. It is the fact that we are using it to shield ourselves from reality by showing things like sitcoms filled with "good time vibes" instead of the facts of the world around