Fahrenheit 451 is a book about that touches on many controversial topics with a complex layer of themes, one of said themes being conforming. Ray Bradbury author of Fahrenheit 451 is saying that a society conforming will create ignorant, scared, and discontent people; he proves this through his characters Mildred, Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps.
Bradbury is saying that living in a society similar to Montag 's isn 't going to magically cure all of peoples problems. It’s just going to cause bigger problems. such as making people numb to their own emotions so when they do have any feelings they don’t know what they 're feeling or how to cope with them. people in a conformed society feels like there trapped and if anything occurs that …show more content…
That moist people wont even know why there scared all the know is there 's something they should be fearing so there going to fight it without getting all the facts.
In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury is saying having a society where the only way to be completely content and happy is to fit into the ideal family image. similar to Americans McCarthyism era, Bradbury is saying this Isn’t going to create happiness even in the people who are living the ideal life, even though Mildred thinks Montag and her are living the high life. 3 They’re not. they 're surviving but there not living;
“I know, I know. You 're afraid of making mistakes. Don 't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people 's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was fort my blunt instrument has been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you 'll never learn. (Bradbury …show more content…
which causes inner turmoil that they have no ide in how to deal with what 's happening. all they 4 know is somethings wrong and that they don’t like it and they want it to stop no matter what. Bradbury touches on this with Mildred 's suicide attempt, she 's looking for a way out but she lost inside her own head. Mildred watches the wall all day because she 's lonely she may not understand what loneliness is but yet she 's still trying to fill it with the company of the family. "Nobody listens any more. I can 't talk to the walls because they 're yelling at me. I can 't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it 'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (Bradbury 82). This quote from Montag is Bradbury 's way of showing what it feels like to be on the opposite side of a conform society. Bradbury saying it feels like your trapped in a room where if you say something wrong the walls are going to slowly close in on you until they finally crush
Bradbury is saying that living in a society similar to Montag 's isn 't going to magically cure all of peoples problems. It’s just going to cause bigger problems. such as making people numb to their own emotions so when they do have any feelings they don’t know what they 're feeling or how to cope with them. people in a conformed society feels like there trapped and if anything occurs that …show more content…
That moist people wont even know why there scared all the know is there 's something they should be fearing so there going to fight it without getting all the facts.
In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury is saying having a society where the only way to be completely content and happy is to fit into the ideal family image. similar to Americans McCarthyism era, Bradbury is saying this Isn’t going to create happiness even in the people who are living the ideal life, even though Mildred thinks Montag and her are living the high life. 3 They’re not. they 're surviving but there not living;
“I know, I know. You 're afraid of making mistakes. Don 't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people 's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was fort my blunt instrument has been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you 'll never learn. (Bradbury …show more content…
which causes inner turmoil that they have no ide in how to deal with what 's happening. all they 4 know is somethings wrong and that they don’t like it and they want it to stop no matter what. Bradbury touches on this with Mildred 's suicide attempt, she 's looking for a way out but she lost inside her own head. Mildred watches the wall all day because she 's lonely she may not understand what loneliness is but yet she 's still trying to fill it with the company of the family. "Nobody listens any more. I can 't talk to the walls because they 're yelling at me. I can 't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it 'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (Bradbury 82). This quote from Montag is Bradbury 's way of showing what it feels like to be on the opposite side of a conform society. Bradbury saying it feels like your trapped in a room where if you say something wrong the walls are going to slowly close in on you until they finally crush