“It was a pleasure to burn.” (3) Guy Montag lives in a society where firemen burn books, ‘family’ are projections on a wall sized TV, and people are considered crazy if they have opinions other then the norm. This dystopian life is controlled by the ignorance of the people and the censorship from the government. Owning books and reading are against the law and the people are drugged into compliance through sleeping pills. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury portrays the idea that ignorance and lack of knowledge can lead to a corrupt incompetent society; this becomes clear to readers when Montag is criticized and eventually persecuted for speaking out.
In part one, Bradbury illustrates the idea that in this time if your thoughts …show more content…
A the book progresses Guy Montag falls farther into the a broken mindset,“‘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.’”(82) From part one part two Montag begins to understand the importance and the difference that reading has on people. He realises the extent of the government's censorship and how much different life would be like if they had books and the option of free thought without discrimination. “‘Go home.’ Montag fixed his eyes upon her quietly. ‘Go home and think of your first husband divorce and your second husband killed in a jet and your third blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortion you’ve had, go home and think of what your damn Caesarian sections, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think about how it all happened and what you ever did to stop it? Go home, go home!”(101) This conversation helps readers realize the full extent of how the censorship of knowledge led to people losing emotion and traits that make them unique and instead adopt a single way of living with no diversity. Once Montag is introduced to the concept of deeper emotions he is overcome with the realizton of how numb people are. Family members commit suicide and they have no reaction, having children has no real emotional value to them. People do thing just to fit in with others. Life is seen more as a burden then a gift to give of have, it no longer has meaning to
In part one, Bradbury illustrates the idea that in this time if your thoughts …show more content…
A the book progresses Guy Montag falls farther into the a broken mindset,“‘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.’”(82) From part one part two Montag begins to understand the importance and the difference that reading has on people. He realises the extent of the government's censorship and how much different life would be like if they had books and the option of free thought without discrimination. “‘Go home.’ Montag fixed his eyes upon her quietly. ‘Go home and think of your first husband divorce and your second husband killed in a jet and your third blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortion you’ve had, go home and think of what your damn Caesarian sections, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think about how it all happened and what you ever did to stop it? Go home, go home!”(101) This conversation helps readers realize the full extent of how the censorship of knowledge led to people losing emotion and traits that make them unique and instead adopt a single way of living with no diversity. Once Montag is introduced to the concept of deeper emotions he is overcome with the realizton of how numb people are. Family members commit suicide and they have no reaction, having children has no real emotional value to them. People do thing just to fit in with others. Life is seen more as a burden then a gift to give of have, it no longer has meaning to