Social Injustice In Fahrenheit 451 Analysis

Social Injustice In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, shows how he fears the future will be. This futuristic world includes Guy Montag and his motives for going against the social standard by reading books. In the society that Bradbury imagines, books are banned and considered wrong in the sense of political correctness, and people aren’t allowed to think for themselves, always being busy with something. Guy Montag is a firefighter, who burns books. It may seem strange now, but in his society books are considered dangerous and are to be burned, and that the firemen’s job. But on several runs, Montag’s hand has a mind of its own and grabs a book, and stores them in his air vent. At Montag’s station, there’s this mechanical hound …show more content…
Montag feels drawn to a book, and without his permission, his hand reaches out and grabs the book, quickly hiding it under his fire jacket. “Montag’s hand closed like a mouth, crushed the books with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest… Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a bunch brain of its own… Now it plunged the book back under his arm… (17, 18)” Montag didn’t want to believe what he had done out of compulsion, so he blamed it on his hand, thinking that if he blamed it there he himself could not be blamed for his action. Clarisse McClellan helped Montag see what their society had become by telling him about dew on the grass in the morning and simple things like that, what once was so noticeable, “’There’s dew on the grass in the morning.’ He [Montag] suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made his quite irritable. ‘and if you look’- she nodded at the sky- ‘there’s a man on the moon’ (4)” Things like these were once notices, but now it was rare they got noticed because everybody had to be busy or in the parlor talking with “Family” like Montag’s wife, Mildred, …show more content…
This society is what Bradbury fears the future holds, and the scary part is he’s not that far off from today’s society. He is able to show social injustice by writing a book simpily about the banning and burning of books, a world that is like the world we live in today. Social injustice is in every society, no matter how much of a utopian it seems, and there is always a group of rebels that go against this society. That rebel group contained Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, Faber, and a few other individuals. These individuals are what keep a society