Mallory Kunis
Mrs. Brown
Honors English 9 Period 2
27 September 2015
Fahrenheit 451: How does the government obtain and maintain power over the populous? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury creates an alternative world where it is thought, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but made equal…” and it is considered to the government that “A book is loaded gun in the house next door.” Therefore, “Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind” (Bradbury 55-56 and Orwell). Allowing people to have knowledge and information is thought of as dangerous by the government. Hence, they must exterminate the source of which the people’s freedom and learning is coming from so all can be equal …show more content…
Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator” (Bradbury 65).
Analysis- This quote from the story shows that whenever something is found to be offensive, or thought provoking by the public, or disturbs the balance of peace and blind happiness, it is best to eliminate it before others are affected as well. By getting rid of everything that causes a rise in negative emotions, the government does not have to deal with violence caused from citizens getting upset or personally offended by materials found in the …show more content…
Jaggers’s, cold and coarse personality and middle class Mr. Wemmick’s kind, considerate characteristics, he criticizes the highest, most powerful members of the upper class.
Data- Pip is invited to go to Mr. Jaggers’ house for dinner and upon entering the house he notices, “A stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows… [a] stone hall, bare, gloomy and little used… [a] dark brown staircase into a series of three dark-brown rooms… [with an] official look… nothing merely ornamental to be seen” (Dickens 203).
Analysis- Mr. Jaggers lives in a gloomy house, painted in dark colors, which Dickens uses to reflect his cold, dark personality. It is evident that Mr. Jaggers’ life lacks happiness, compassion and love and this demonstrates Dickens negative affiliation with the highest members of the upper class.
Data- When Pip goes to Mr. Wemmick’s house he observes, “The smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest windows…a gothic door… [it was] pleasant to see the pride with which [Mr. Wemmick] hoisted [the plank] up…smiling…with a relish and not nearly mechanical” (Dickens
Mrs. Brown
Honors English 9 Period 2
27 September 2015
Fahrenheit 451: How does the government obtain and maintain power over the populous? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury creates an alternative world where it is thought, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but made equal…” and it is considered to the government that “A book is loaded gun in the house next door.” Therefore, “Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind” (Bradbury 55-56 and Orwell). Allowing people to have knowledge and information is thought of as dangerous by the government. Hence, they must exterminate the source of which the people’s freedom and learning is coming from so all can be equal …show more content…
Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator” (Bradbury 65).
Analysis- This quote from the story shows that whenever something is found to be offensive, or thought provoking by the public, or disturbs the balance of peace and blind happiness, it is best to eliminate it before others are affected as well. By getting rid of everything that causes a rise in negative emotions, the government does not have to deal with violence caused from citizens getting upset or personally offended by materials found in the …show more content…
Jaggers’s, cold and coarse personality and middle class Mr. Wemmick’s kind, considerate characteristics, he criticizes the highest, most powerful members of the upper class.
Data- Pip is invited to go to Mr. Jaggers’ house for dinner and upon entering the house he notices, “A stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows… [a] stone hall, bare, gloomy and little used… [a] dark brown staircase into a series of three dark-brown rooms… [with an] official look… nothing merely ornamental to be seen” (Dickens 203).
Analysis- Mr. Jaggers lives in a gloomy house, painted in dark colors, which Dickens uses to reflect his cold, dark personality. It is evident that Mr. Jaggers’ life lacks happiness, compassion and love and this demonstrates Dickens negative affiliation with the highest members of the upper class.
Data- When Pip goes to Mr. Wemmick’s house he observes, “The smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest windows…a gothic door… [it was] pleasant to see the pride with which [Mr. Wemmick] hoisted [the plank] up…smiling…with a relish and not nearly mechanical” (Dickens