Title: Knowledge can be very dangerous to your existence
Bradbury's fictional society is one in which books were banned and you had to exist based on the knowledge that was told to you. Books as we know them today provide value sources of information. However, in Bradbury’s society you were not allowed to think anything other than what allowed or considered normal. If you thought differently from the society, you would have been considered mad and place in an asylum. The various characters in this fictional society all gained knowledge by various methods and have different views on knowledge and what should be done or thought. Their statements also indicate that most of them even if they were thinking about something abolished the thought …show more content…
Clarisse although a girl of only seventeen years had Montag wondering and thinking about things from their first meeting when she asked “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” (p.3). He had no prior knowledge of this and when Montag asked this question to the other firemen it startled them. Beatty, Stoneman and Black, fellow firemen, all brought him back to the reality in which they were living by referring to the rule book (p.16). Montag also began to think of the consequences of the firemen’s actions and questioned their actions. When Beatty and Montag discussed the fire which happened previously and Montag discovered that although the gentleman was sane he was taken to the asylum, simply because he had books (p.14). Montag also thought that books must have valuable information or knowledge in them as he explained to his wife, "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." …show more content…
They are both law abiding citizens who think that books have no worth or value and you cannot gain any knowledge from them. Mildred was flabbergasted and afraid when she realized that her husband had books. She was terrified for both their lives and their home when she saw the books. “Mildred backed away as if she were suddenly confronted by a pack of mice that had come up out of the floor” (p.31). She wanted her husband to burn the books so that they will not get into trouble with the law, but he refused (p.31). Although she and her husband read the books she thought that they lacked people. "Books aren't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!"(p.33) Additionally she did not think that the books said anything of value as she explained to the group of women who came to her home, “Ladies, you won't understand a word. It goes umpty-tumpty-ump.” (p. 46) When Montag, urged by his wife read the poetry to the women it arose a flow of emotions and the women were not pleased and stated that they were not coming back to Montage’s house(p.
Bradbury's fictional society is one in which books were banned and you had to exist based on the knowledge that was told to you. Books as we know them today provide value sources of information. However, in Bradbury’s society you were not allowed to think anything other than what allowed or considered normal. If you thought differently from the society, you would have been considered mad and place in an asylum. The various characters in this fictional society all gained knowledge by various methods and have different views on knowledge and what should be done or thought. Their statements also indicate that most of them even if they were thinking about something abolished the thought …show more content…
Clarisse although a girl of only seventeen years had Montag wondering and thinking about things from their first meeting when she asked “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” (p.3). He had no prior knowledge of this and when Montag asked this question to the other firemen it startled them. Beatty, Stoneman and Black, fellow firemen, all brought him back to the reality in which they were living by referring to the rule book (p.16). Montag also began to think of the consequences of the firemen’s actions and questioned their actions. When Beatty and Montag discussed the fire which happened previously and Montag discovered that although the gentleman was sane he was taken to the asylum, simply because he had books (p.14). Montag also thought that books must have valuable information or knowledge in them as he explained to his wife, "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." …show more content…
They are both law abiding citizens who think that books have no worth or value and you cannot gain any knowledge from them. Mildred was flabbergasted and afraid when she realized that her husband had books. She was terrified for both their lives and their home when she saw the books. “Mildred backed away as if she were suddenly confronted by a pack of mice that had come up out of the floor” (p.31). She wanted her husband to burn the books so that they will not get into trouble with the law, but he refused (p.31). Although she and her husband read the books she thought that they lacked people. "Books aren't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!"(p.33) Additionally she did not think that the books said anything of value as she explained to the group of women who came to her home, “Ladies, you won't understand a word. It goes umpty-tumpty-ump.” (p. 46) When Montag, urged by his wife read the poetry to the women it arose a flow of emotions and the women were not pleased and stated that they were not coming back to Montage’s house(p.