Imagine a world where you couldn 't read books, enjoy nature or do anything unique yourself. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 they live in a controlling society. The characters don 't read books, think individually, enjoy nature or even have intelligent meaningful conversations. The censorship of the books leads to a society where individualism isn 't valued and is persecuted causing the characters to fear being and showing their individuality stemming from the dispute of their community members. The characters aren 't ever leaving themselves to be vulnerable by being an individual in the society. Characters are being murdered or shut in their homes or excommunicated and hunted all for being individual. Clarisse was as much as an individual
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I’ve lived alone so many years, throwing images on walls with my imagination. Fiddling with electronics, radio transmission has been my hobby. My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this. (Bradbury 86)
His cowardliness controls his life. Even though Faber was never caught it is almost like he is because he is held captive in his home. He could have easily spoken out but his fears kept holding him back from living his life the way he wanted to. The Book people are like Faber, although they have lived their lives openly as individuals. They are still shut away like Faber but they are shunned from coming out of their camps in the Wilderness. This group reads books and keeps them in mind, before the members burn them. They identify themselves as a part of literature because each one reads one book and learns it by heart to bring it to the next generations. “ ‘It’s all right,’ the voice said. ‘You’re welcome here’” (Bradbury 140). The hobo camp was the place were Montag was accepted and encouraged to be himself. It’s very ironic that the intelligent people and the scholars are forced to be secluded in the wilderness because of doing what they do. It is usually the uneducated people who live as hobos. Even though the hobos have adapted to this life of living on the outskirts of their society they know it must …show more content…
We are to absorbed into technology and our fun distractions like cars and shopping that we don 't even realize we are the people of the book. “The time for Individualism no longer belongs to the past; we must embrace it today.” (Jacobo) Most people aren 't doing things for themselves, they are letting our government tell them what to do or the others around them. In our world people are getting persecuted just like Guy Montag’s world. The difference is, is that we have the option to be individual but many people are too afraid of what others might think and say about them so they conform to those around them. “Today, Individualism has all but disappeared in the sense that it existed during the conception of America.” (Jacobo) People are following the celebrities and the public normal and are mostly nice and comfortable where they are and wont explore being individual. Guy Montag becomes sick of being what is the society
I’ve lived alone so many years, throwing images on walls with my imagination. Fiddling with electronics, radio transmission has been my hobby. My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this. (Bradbury 86)
His cowardliness controls his life. Even though Faber was never caught it is almost like he is because he is held captive in his home. He could have easily spoken out but his fears kept holding him back from living his life the way he wanted to. The Book people are like Faber, although they have lived their lives openly as individuals. They are still shut away like Faber but they are shunned from coming out of their camps in the Wilderness. This group reads books and keeps them in mind, before the members burn them. They identify themselves as a part of literature because each one reads one book and learns it by heart to bring it to the next generations. “ ‘It’s all right,’ the voice said. ‘You’re welcome here’” (Bradbury 140). The hobo camp was the place were Montag was accepted and encouraged to be himself. It’s very ironic that the intelligent people and the scholars are forced to be secluded in the wilderness because of doing what they do. It is usually the uneducated people who live as hobos. Even though the hobos have adapted to this life of living on the outskirts of their society they know it must …show more content…
We are to absorbed into technology and our fun distractions like cars and shopping that we don 't even realize we are the people of the book. “The time for Individualism no longer belongs to the past; we must embrace it today.” (Jacobo) Most people aren 't doing things for themselves, they are letting our government tell them what to do or the others around them. In our world people are getting persecuted just like Guy Montag’s world. The difference is, is that we have the option to be individual but many people are too afraid of what others might think and say about them so they conform to those around them. “Today, Individualism has all but disappeared in the sense that it existed during the conception of America.” (Jacobo) People are following the celebrities and the public normal and are mostly nice and comfortable where they are and wont explore being individual. Guy Montag becomes sick of being what is the society