In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury portrays an idea of what happiness is in a different type of form, which is knowledge. In the fictional society of Fahrenheit 451, the people are being controlled by the government, where they are not allowed to think. By thinking, you get knowledge, and by having knowledge allows the people to think for themselves, of what they think is right or wrong. Through acknowledging what is right or wrong, leads people to think for themselves, thus they can find what makes them happy. However, this isn’t happening in Bradbury’s society, the people are taught by the government to believe that they are happy, when they really aren’t. Bradbury is defining happiness as something we can succeed with knowledge.
