Fahrenheit 451 While researching the text of Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury writes of the future which seems to be the present. The similarity between the world in the book to our own is very breathtaking because if you think about it the book was written in the 1950’s in which they had just gotten TV’s,video recorders, and radios etc. The reason being that they had just gotten that type of technology there was no way of him knowing that the technology would escalate like it has or the fact that people are lonely in the world, the stupidity of people by having no reason to kill themselves or addictions that people have towards different things like drugs. Fahrenheit 451 is about a fireman who burns books,
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His loneliness is also shown when he finds out about Clarisse death because he realized how she was the only one who understood him. The Exploring poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud talks about how an individual is getting moved against his own will by the wind. This can relate to the novel Fahrenheit 451 because in the beginning Montag is tricked into believing that he loves his life and job but doesn't really know what happiness really is because all he knows are lies that are taught by the society itself just like in the poem it states “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze” which is saying like rolling with the crowd. And when Clarisse makes him see how unhappy he really is he feels really depressed and lonely because no one understands him or sees the things like he does, he feels like an outsider because he thinks a different way. It can also relate to the poem when it says “ten thousand saw and I glanced” because when Montag is caught up on the books he sees everyone looking back at him because they thought he was crazy for what he was doing. Since he is the only one who is trying to bring back books so that people can receive the knowledge that he is getting from the books. They see him as a psycho not knowing the things he knows from the books. Another phrase that it can be related to this is when the poem says “And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils” because in the end of the story Montag finds happiness. After everything that he had to go throught to be who he really is he finally found the happiness in the world that he has been looking for his whole life, even if it means that he is alone in the world. Which he has been but he had just realized it when Clarisse made him see the things how they really
His loneliness is also shown when he finds out about Clarisse death because he realized how she was the only one who understood him. The Exploring poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud talks about how an individual is getting moved against his own will by the wind. This can relate to the novel Fahrenheit 451 because in the beginning Montag is tricked into believing that he loves his life and job but doesn't really know what happiness really is because all he knows are lies that are taught by the society itself just like in the poem it states “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze” which is saying like rolling with the crowd. And when Clarisse makes him see how unhappy he really is he feels really depressed and lonely because no one understands him or sees the things like he does, he feels like an outsider because he thinks a different way. It can also relate to the poem when it says “ten thousand saw and I glanced” because when Montag is caught up on the books he sees everyone looking back at him because they thought he was crazy for what he was doing. Since he is the only one who is trying to bring back books so that people can receive the knowledge that he is getting from the books. They see him as a psycho not knowing the things he knows from the books. Another phrase that it can be related to this is when the poem says “And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils” because in the end of the story Montag finds happiness. After everything that he had to go throught to be who he really is he finally found the happiness in the world that he has been looking for his whole life, even if it means that he is alone in the world. Which he has been but he had just realized it when Clarisse made him see the things how they really