Ray Bradbury definitely wrote a very good story about a possible dystopian future, but he also inclines that our current society could go down that path if we let it happen. Firemen burn books, and that's what we see with our main character, Guy Montag. He works as a fireman, a literal fireman, and burns books. But what is Ray Bradbury really trying to tell us with this book? He is trying to warn us about our society. In the society in the book, the lack of realistic information, or information that makes you think, causes people to basically be robots. Also, every single person does the exact same thing. Everyone watches the parlor walls, and listens to their seashell at night. Everyone could be controlled at once, if it was desired. And this
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Robots are only fed small bits of information, and they act based on this very limited knowledge. The average person in F451’s society is very similar. The majority of important information is blocked and regulated, so people have learned to act based on their limited knowledge. They simply aren’t fed any information that would allow them to form a real, and strong opinion. People that live in this society also don’t feel very much emotion. This is clearly shown by the growing discourse between Montag and Mildred throughout sections one and two, where it started in section one and grew to a breaking point very early in part three. But not only Montag and Mildred are affected. On page 99 and 100, Montag reads some poems to Mildred’s friends, one of the bursts out crying, and the other gets insanely angry at Montag and starts yelling at him. These people have such shallow, fragile emotions that just a little tiny bit of a book completely throws them off. This is all put into the book not only to provide context of the horrible world the story takes place in, but also to show an example what could possibly come in the near future. Mildred even thinks that the walls are more ‘real’ compared to the books, and she is clearly showing that she loves the family more than Montag and his books. “Mildred kicked at a book. “Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody!”... …”Now,” said Mildred, “My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!”” Mildred is blinded by her parlor walls, and the rest of society being the exact
Robots are only fed small bits of information, and they act based on this very limited knowledge. The average person in F451’s society is very similar. The majority of important information is blocked and regulated, so people have learned to act based on their limited knowledge. They simply aren’t fed any information that would allow them to form a real, and strong opinion. People that live in this society also don’t feel very much emotion. This is clearly shown by the growing discourse between Montag and Mildred throughout sections one and two, where it started in section one and grew to a breaking point very early in part three. But not only Montag and Mildred are affected. On page 99 and 100, Montag reads some poems to Mildred’s friends, one of the bursts out crying, and the other gets insanely angry at Montag and starts yelling at him. These people have such shallow, fragile emotions that just a little tiny bit of a book completely throws them off. This is all put into the book not only to provide context of the horrible world the story takes place in, but also to show an example what could possibly come in the near future. Mildred even thinks that the walls are more ‘real’ compared to the books, and she is clearly showing that she loves the family more than Montag and his books. “Mildred kicked at a book. “Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody!”... …”Now,” said Mildred, “My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!”” Mildred is blinded by her parlor walls, and the rest of society being the exact