I believe the novel is intended to deliver a message that pursues to …show more content…
This is reflected in the house of Guy Montag, where Mildred, his wife does not care nothing more than to live a short life where everything is routine, no coexistence and also just think about having more goods, which is what makes her happy, for example, when she believes that one the television on wall-size is one is not enough, she was always looking for more and more. However, the example also develops another subject, the impact technology as it was the TV during that time. I believe materialism is associated with treating people in a competitive way, manipulative, selfish and less empathic. Such behaviors are generally not appreciated by the people, even though it is encouraged by some aspects of our capitalist economic system. Happiness should not be based on what physical items we own, instead having the knowledge and the freedom to decide who you want to be is more valuable than anything in a society. Fahrenheit demonstrates fear of the punishment to those who still harbored books, which it shows how having the control on people mind does not help for a society to develop more and create more ideas of how to find happiness by expressing their own thoughts and creating their own