Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

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In the book Fahrenheit 451 people had a different kind of pragmatic society than we do now. people were hallow and did not care , society made everyone the same. War , technology , schools/education and families were almost fake they were so much alike. everyone was craven because everyone had secretes or laws they broke but did not say anything about it because they wanted the perfect steadfast life or did not want it but acted like they did. his overall purpose for creating fahenheit 451 is to show people what like would be like if everybody was the same and did not care about anything but themselves. Montag’s journey in this book might relate to why we should not follow everyone-else or society’s rules and acknowledge what actually matters …show more content…
“This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum." ( montag 6). also while the medics are preforming this procedure they are smoking and talking as if everything was normal , this illustrates that it has been done often. This indirectly explains about emptiness in peoples life\soul in the society. You can almost hear the trepidation coming from this quote as montag talks. In today;s society overdoesing means the same thing kinda , That the person was hallow or sad with life but its how we react to it thats different. We don’t have medicines made for replaceing the victums blood because for the most part it does not happen very often. But it’s a traggitty when it does. Other examples of such emptness in the society is when montag is in his room at night thinking and all he hears is "The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him." (bradbury 11). This demonstrates conformity to the society in the book. He is listening to the jet bombers as if he has listened before like it is normal to hear

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