Guy de Maupassant

I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow” (Bradbury 23-24). This quote is from Clarisse McClellan, who is of the few who know how to think for themselves and was talking to Guy Montag at the time. Which means that she does not think Guy should be a fireman even though that’s what he’s been doing for the past ten years and claimed to…

The scene also reminds us of the river scene in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring where the Nazgûl show they are afraid of water. The story being well known in French culture, the Family Guy reference can be understood as an allusion to it. When Lois finally learns the truth, she exclaims ‘What the fuck?’ with the ‘fuck’ being covered by the sound of Peter’s boat. Just as Peter’s earlier ‘This is bullshit!’, the French adaptation is a…

Douglass once said- “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” In Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 knowledge is taken away from society through censorship. Throughout the book the main character is Montag, who collects books and knowledge soon he is forced to leave and he meets a group of intellectuals whose leader is Granger who was forced to leave for having books. We are still trying to prove the propriety of Grangers actions. Although Granger was risking his life he saw fit to help Montag, who is…

In “The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, the parents, George and Lydia, are to criticize for their own annihilation. The Veldt is a story about how virtual reality had a deficient influence on a family. This family moved into a house with an excessive load of technology. Everyday the children, Wendy and Peter, would go to the nursery and wreckage around with the virtual reality. They spent hours and sometimes even days in there. After a while they got incredibly addicted to the VR and never interacted…

Four hundred and fifty-one degrees is the temperature at which paper catches fire and burns. Written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 must have to do with burning books, given the title. Guy Montag, the main character, is one of the book burners, also known as a “fireman” in their society. Their job is to start fires instead of stopping them. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses Montag’s transformation from a fireman to a revolutionary to illustrate how knowledge and self-reflection can change…

portrays a hedonistic society where time was consumed by breakneck driving and interactive television walls. Books, at its very core, were illegal and banned by the government. Beatty, the captain of the fire department, represented everything firefighter Guy Montag could have been but never would be. Like all, Beatty and Montag fell victim to the government’s brainwashing propaganda, which was issued upon its citizens in effort to mask in an indifference onto everything supposedly meaningful…

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces two women who influence the life of the main character Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job is dedicated to destroying books. The seventeen-year-old neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, is mentioned first and provides the stimulus for Montag’s new outlook on life. His wife Mildred, whose personality differs completely from Clarisse’s, portrays the second woman who impacts Montag. With their differences, Clarisse and Mildred influence Montag in opposite ways…

In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the reader is introduced into a futuristic, dystopian society that is built on the remnants of the United States, called Gilead. Throughout the novel, Atwood uses satire to mock and warn the United States of the danger in the strongly held political opinions in the 1980’s, when the book was written. Atwood extrapolates the ideas to their extremes, showing the danger of their acceptance. The absurdity and outrageousness of her exaggerations give the novel…

In our world today, technology is becoming such a big part of our lives. It has come to the point where people would much rather watch television or play on their smartphones instead of reading books and explore their own imagination. The book Fahrenheit 451 expresses the concept of technology taking over the world by burning books and erasing all ways of gaining intelligence in their society. As long as the people in the society do not break the law of reading books or gaining knowledge, they…

being burned down and destroyed, there is one man who wants to and will make a change. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a firefighter with a weird twist. Firefighters burn down books instead of putting the fires out! When doing this job and meeting other types of people, Montag comes to realize that he is on the wrong side, and that he should be saving the books instead of burning them. Guy Montag is a deeply interesting character, he shows curiosity, self-awareness, and courage. He is a man who…