In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury shows a world of the future where there are numerous amounts of technology and where books are abhorred. Most people in Montag’s society believe that books are useless and meaningless. Montag believes that books are dangerous because he has never been told otherwise. He was a fireman that burnt all the books that people were caught trying to hide. When Clarisse comes into the story, it begins the questioning about books and the thought that they are important.
Books showed truth, and when people in Montag’s society started to go to them as a resource, they became threats. Clarisse, the seventeen year old girl that asks why instead of how, represents individualism. When she was walking with Montag, she asked …show more content…
They spend their days watching tv and are so caught up in technology that they don’t realize the meaning of life. If anyone got caught with books they were burned and if you wouldn’t leave them, they would burn you too just like the lady was. Before she was burnt, she was talking to Montag and said, “Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”(Bradbury 39). Montag didn’t understand at first what the quote meant but Beatty knew what the women was saying. He explained to Montag that “A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555.” (Bradbury 40). You would think that Beatty would be one of the last ones to know something like that since he was a fireman and he was supposively following the rules and laws. The quote the woman used meant that she was willing to die for her books and the reason would be for heresy just like Latimer and Ridley. It surprised Montag that Beatty knew that. Beatty was against books because it revealed things, things that he thought were dangerous to
Books showed truth, and when people in Montag’s society started to go to them as a resource, they became threats. Clarisse, the seventeen year old girl that asks why instead of how, represents individualism. When she was walking with Montag, she asked …show more content…
They spend their days watching tv and are so caught up in technology that they don’t realize the meaning of life. If anyone got caught with books they were burned and if you wouldn’t leave them, they would burn you too just like the lady was. Before she was burnt, she was talking to Montag and said, “Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”(Bradbury 39). Montag didn’t understand at first what the quote meant but Beatty knew what the women was saying. He explained to Montag that “A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555.” (Bradbury 40). You would think that Beatty would be one of the last ones to know something like that since he was a fireman and he was supposively following the rules and laws. The quote the woman used meant that she was willing to die for her books and the reason would be for heresy just like Latimer and Ridley. It surprised Montag that Beatty knew that. Beatty was against books because it revealed things, things that he thought were dangerous to