In Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, The main character realizes that his life isn’t all that joyful, and witnesses the unhappy society that he lives in. Happiness is a difficult trait to come by it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack of misery, but is well worth the suffering. Guy Montag struggles to find the happiness in his society filled with unhappy people, what is happiness, and makes readers ponder if his or her society is as happy as Guy’s.
Once, Montag began to see the imperfections in his society, he came to the conclusion that he has worked and lived with the numerous amount of people who shroud their discontent with televisions. Montag even married one of the miserable, beings he called Mildred. Mildred was in denial of her shortcomings and refused to admit that she uses sleeping pills to try and escape. The humans of Bradbury’s society use televisions to distract themselves from their true feelings, and Montag struggled to have an actual conversation with Mildred. She would refuse to talk about the topic because the society wants to suppress any outlet to show your emotions. Guy was not as shocked to find out about Mildred is not being happy with what she has he was shocked to find out his own Captain felt the same way as Montag’s wife felt. He realized this when he was confronted by Beatty and the other fireman, instead of Beatty …show more content…
He seeks true happiness. That pure ecstasy that is lacking in the Montag’s world is a very odd sensation. Glee is not solely laughter or smiles, that can be the curtain you cover sadness in, but it needs to be something you feel deep within yourself. A deep sense of satisfaction can be considered happiness. Being happy is not as black and white as some conceive the idea of joy. Joy has many faces. Now that happiness has been given character, everybody needs to evaluate if their society has been infected by the misery and
Once, Montag began to see the imperfections in his society, he came to the conclusion that he has worked and lived with the numerous amount of people who shroud their discontent with televisions. Montag even married one of the miserable, beings he called Mildred. Mildred was in denial of her shortcomings and refused to admit that she uses sleeping pills to try and escape. The humans of Bradbury’s society use televisions to distract themselves from their true feelings, and Montag struggled to have an actual conversation with Mildred. She would refuse to talk about the topic because the society wants to suppress any outlet to show your emotions. Guy was not as shocked to find out about Mildred is not being happy with what she has he was shocked to find out his own Captain felt the same way as Montag’s wife felt. He realized this when he was confronted by Beatty and the other fireman, instead of Beatty …show more content…
He seeks true happiness. That pure ecstasy that is lacking in the Montag’s world is a very odd sensation. Glee is not solely laughter or smiles, that can be the curtain you cover sadness in, but it needs to be something you feel deep within yourself. A deep sense of satisfaction can be considered happiness. Being happy is not as black and white as some conceive the idea of joy. Joy has many faces. Now that happiness has been given character, everybody needs to evaluate if their society has been infected by the misery and