Fahrenheit 451 Paper Outline
How frequently do people who can’t create a successful life for themselves tend to demolish themselves or everything around them? How many individuals simply just exist due to their lack of purpose in their life? And how many of those people search for an answer only to find something harmful such as drugs, alcohol, or suicide? In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury explores these questions by leaving an underlying message saying that if people don’t have something to work towards or serve a purpose, then they destroy everything around them or themselves.
It is often insinuated in this novel that suicide is common among the people of the society because they don’t have anything to cling to or build upon, they just simply exist. When Guy Montag comes home after a long day of work and walks into the bedroom where he stumbles over, “the small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier had been filled with thirty capsules {and} now lay uncapped and empty…”(11). Mildred Montag becomes completely submerged in an electronic world becoming distant with other individuals and distracts her from having a purposeful life, which nearly kills her. She ultimately …show more content…
Her friends stay distracted by participating in car-wrecking or playing violent games, so they don’t even have time to have a decent conversation with one another. She says “they kill each other”(27) and “ten of them died in car wrecks”(27). The kids use violence as a way to steer themselves from thoughts of their own unhappiness in the world and use violence to feel that hole that is missing within them due to the lack of meaning in their lives. The kids of the society have absolutely nothing to cling onto. They don’t even receive love from their own parents, so they can’t help but to be so miserable. As a result, violence is the only means to escape and distract them from their own
How frequently do people who can’t create a successful life for themselves tend to demolish themselves or everything around them? How many individuals simply just exist due to their lack of purpose in their life? And how many of those people search for an answer only to find something harmful such as drugs, alcohol, or suicide? In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury explores these questions by leaving an underlying message saying that if people don’t have something to work towards or serve a purpose, then they destroy everything around them or themselves.
It is often insinuated in this novel that suicide is common among the people of the society because they don’t have anything to cling to or build upon, they just simply exist. When Guy Montag comes home after a long day of work and walks into the bedroom where he stumbles over, “the small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier had been filled with thirty capsules {and} now lay uncapped and empty…”(11). Mildred Montag becomes completely submerged in an electronic world becoming distant with other individuals and distracts her from having a purposeful life, which nearly kills her. She ultimately …show more content…
Her friends stay distracted by participating in car-wrecking or playing violent games, so they don’t even have time to have a decent conversation with one another. She says “they kill each other”(27) and “ten of them died in car wrecks”(27). The kids use violence as a way to steer themselves from thoughts of their own unhappiness in the world and use violence to feel that hole that is missing within them due to the lack of meaning in their lives. The kids of the society have absolutely nothing to cling onto. They don’t even receive love from their own parents, so they can’t help but to be so miserable. As a result, violence is the only means to escape and distract them from their own