1 Despite an understandable cliche that in a dark and desolate dystopia, none, save the primary protagonist, is immune to the virus of monotony, Ray Bradbury does the unexpected. The author neither shies away from an added workload in the complexity of a character and nor does he fall back on the excuse of increased world building when he chooses to insert a strong dynamic, albeit minor, character. In Bradbury's daunting futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451, Faber, a retired professor, evolves from a mysterious old man to an inspirational individual in Montag's search for redemption and revival of books through his recognition of past failures and his ability to guide Montag through difficult situations throughout the novel.
Faber is first introduced in the work as a trembling old man, almost as if he's trying to hide something. When …show more content…
Even so, to properly answer this question, one must first define strength and realize that the state of being strong is not merely limited to military strength. In this way, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451's totalitarian society of controlled information and media intake embodies the counter: an entire population confined to the same thinkings versus one man with the freedom of knowledge.
One may think of a number's game, the more you have, the better. However, when the greater population has the same idealistic beliefs, such as in Fahrenheit 451, does it make a difference in how many ones has? When Montag runs away from the city, he "imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards… like gray animals". Bradbury addresses that the majority in Fahrenheit 451 has a herd mentality, which means one person's ideas are similar to the other and can be easily manipulated, thus making the power of numbers just a
Faber is first introduced in the work as a trembling old man, almost as if he's trying to hide something. When …show more content…
Even so, to properly answer this question, one must first define strength and realize that the state of being strong is not merely limited to military strength. In this way, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451's totalitarian society of controlled information and media intake embodies the counter: an entire population confined to the same thinkings versus one man with the freedom of knowledge.
One may think of a number's game, the more you have, the better. However, when the greater population has the same idealistic beliefs, such as in Fahrenheit 451, does it make a difference in how many ones has? When Montag runs away from the city, he "imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards… like gray animals". Bradbury addresses that the majority in Fahrenheit 451 has a herd mentality, which means one person's ideas are similar to the other and can be easily manipulated, thus making the power of numbers just a