The Sea of Faith, an excerpt of Dover Beach, is read aloud by Guy Montag to his wife and her friends. The excerpt he reads describes a sea of faith, that is to say, an ocean filled with religion and other ideologies. An ocean filled with beauty at high-tide is slowly withering away, describing the world losing its collective faith. As the ocean recedes, the beach is only left with the shore filled with the small rocks from the sea. In brief, the first stanza describes the lack of faith in the world. Then, the second stanza goes to the reader speaking to his love. Even in a world without faith, they wish to be true to one another. As an allusion to Adam and Eve, the author describes the “new” world being theirs for the taking. Alas, the world
