In life, humans often mistake being occupied with true happiness and are content with what is more temporary and in abundance than having quality. Ray Bradbury warned that distraction creates the negative outcomes of suicide, lack of creativity and detachment when it is used to replace true happiness and self-actualization.
Suicide often occurs among people who are usually distracted and find time to think about their lives and what they have actually done with it. In the beginning of the book, after Guy found Mildred nearly dead in their bedroom, he was distraught: “Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity. It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark …show more content…
Towards the middle of the book while Mrs. Bowles is explain why having children is only a small inconvenience, she says, “‘I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You heave them into the 'parlour' and turn the switch. It's like washing clothes; stuff laundry in and slam the lid’” (Bradbury 55). Mrs. Bowles had no bond with her children; she saw them as burdens and she did not even care enough to spend time with them. Detachment can lead to lack of empathy and therefore no inclination to be moral which hinders people from improving themselves; distractions promote the idea that it is acceptable to put a their own feelings before the feelings of others. Ray Bradbury explained through “Fahrenheit 451” that when people are distracted they tend to be more suicidal, uncreative and detached, especially when those distractions are used to replace happiness. If humans continue to use distractions in place of happiness, they will not know what true happiness is; people need to go through the human condition of being able to achieve what they want by knowing that it will bring them true happiness or they will not have a real need to achieve
Suicide often occurs among people who are usually distracted and find time to think about their lives and what they have actually done with it. In the beginning of the book, after Guy found Mildred nearly dead in their bedroom, he was distraught: “Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity. It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark …show more content…
Towards the middle of the book while Mrs. Bowles is explain why having children is only a small inconvenience, she says, “‘I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You heave them into the 'parlour' and turn the switch. It's like washing clothes; stuff laundry in and slam the lid’” (Bradbury 55). Mrs. Bowles had no bond with her children; she saw them as burdens and she did not even care enough to spend time with them. Detachment can lead to lack of empathy and therefore no inclination to be moral which hinders people from improving themselves; distractions promote the idea that it is acceptable to put a their own feelings before the feelings of others. Ray Bradbury explained through “Fahrenheit 451” that when people are distracted they tend to be more suicidal, uncreative and detached, especially when those distractions are used to replace happiness. If humans continue to use distractions in place of happiness, they will not know what true happiness is; people need to go through the human condition of being able to achieve what they want by knowing that it will bring them true happiness or they will not have a real need to achieve