Ray Bradbury's Farheit 451

“And because they had mass, they became simpler” (). Novel Farhebhiet 451 by Ray Bradbury presents a future American society where books ae prohibited. Have a mind of your own seemed to be outlawed. Bradburys message is trying o convey with his book is that people should want to work to avert that sort of society from becoming a reality. In today's world there are already connections with the 1953 novel, yet things that have not yet been heard of.
“Picture it, nineteenth century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter…. Everythin boils down to the the gag, the snap ending” (). Captain Beatty explaining how the world came to be, to Montag, the protagonist of the novel. Though out the book, Montag changes his views and way of life, making him a dynamic character. In the beginning he sees books as evil, unlawful. Montag is a fireman, which is ironic because today firemen put out fires, while Montag, and the society in which he lives, starts fires, many of them for th burning of books and houses with books in them. Fire is the way of happiness in their world, without it, they wouldn't have ways to eliminate their so called “problems”. People …show more content…
Beatty suggests to Montag; “Give people contests they win… Chock hen so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information” ( ). How things work today. People are so caught up with social media, “facts” from unreliable sources, that people are losing interest in reality. Also in Fahrenheit 451 the people don't want to see things, hear things, know things. So they pretend they aren't there and eventually believe it, or get rid of it..burn it. In their eyes there is only fun. The same is with out society. We see, hear, and learn what we choose to and ignore the rest, or ‘build walls’ to keep the problem