Fahrenheit 451 is one of the many books that is injected with multiple instances of social commentary in which Ray Bradbury critiques the citizens and their home society. Most of which refer to the censorship the government imposes on the society and their people. The citizens have been brainwashed to destroy all of their community’s past. This is evident when we see that firemen are completely different than what we know today and what they were in the past. Firemen are now trained to light things on fire instead of extinguishing. They don’t know what they’re doing or why they’re doing it, but they do as they’re told out of fear. We see this when Montag finally realizes why they burn the books after talking to Clarisse McClellan, the young,
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Montag and his wife are key subjects to this. We see this through their repetition of simple words. When Millie is gathering with her friends/neighbors to watch a show on their large TVs. Millie is complementing the women at the gathering while the women repeat the most simple words at her, “Doesn’t everyone look nice!” “Nice.” (Bradbury 43). Bradbury uses simple things like this to describe the entire community as a whole and overall critique the ways of the citizens and their loss of education due to the censorship of all book. This leads into Bradbury’s overall point that books are key to a good …show more content…
In the book, people are absolutely obsessed with televisions and other gadgets to replace the entertainment that the books would have given the citizens. Some of these advancements include earbuds, large interactive televisions, and even robotic dogs to make the jobs of the firemen easier. One of the most profound instances of this would be when Montag’s house was being burned down and Millie said, “Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone everything, everything gone now…”. Millie was not referring to Montag, she was more worried about her televisions. She used the tvs so much that she didn’t even think twice about Montag possibly dying. She cared more about the destruction of her
Montag and his wife are key subjects to this. We see this through their repetition of simple words. When Millie is gathering with her friends/neighbors to watch a show on their large TVs. Millie is complementing the women at the gathering while the women repeat the most simple words at her, “Doesn’t everyone look nice!” “Nice.” (Bradbury 43). Bradbury uses simple things like this to describe the entire community as a whole and overall critique the ways of the citizens and their loss of education due to the censorship of all book. This leads into Bradbury’s overall point that books are key to a good …show more content…
In the book, people are absolutely obsessed with televisions and other gadgets to replace the entertainment that the books would have given the citizens. Some of these advancements include earbuds, large interactive televisions, and even robotic dogs to make the jobs of the firemen easier. One of the most profound instances of this would be when Montag’s house was being burned down and Millie said, “Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone everything, everything gone now…”. Millie was not referring to Montag, she was more worried about her televisions. She used the tvs so much that she didn’t even think twice about Montag possibly dying. She cared more about the destruction of her