Jean-François Lyotard

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he explains the dangers of technology and how it keeps people happy. No one knows each other, therefore mo one can cause any distress. The ones that are different, and cause an uprising are killed, such as Clarisse, since they make the citizens feel an uneasiness, and feel unhappy. Books are unacceptable since they can bring conflict, and are incinerated with fire along with where the books were found. Technology is dangerous when it is overly consumed because…

Group A 4. Bradbury does have hope in mankind at the end of the novel. Many characters convey different opinions. Beatty does not have hope in mankind saying, "Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries of more." (Bradbury 55). He thinks that people will never acquire knowledge and will never be intelligent again. He is also contributing to the ignorance by being a firefighter and burning books. Granger and Montag…

Guy Montag: 30 year old firefighter. He loves to burn books- “It’s a pleasure to burn…”- until one day he and his crew burn down an old lady’s house and he realizes how terrified she looked, and how much the books meant to her. Guy is passionate, driven, crazy at times, a free thinker, but identity crises happen with him often. His crises begin when he meets Clarisse, and she tells him how he’s so much different from other firemen. “When I talk, you look at me. … The others {firefighters} would…

Guy Montag is a firefighter who smolders books in a cutting edge American city. In Montag's reality, firefighters begin fires as opposed to putting them out. The general population in this general public don't read books, appreciate nature, invest energy without anyone else's input, think freely, or have important discussions. Rather, they drive quick, watch extreme measures of TV on divider estimate sets, and listen to the radio on "Seashell Radio" sets connected to their ears. All through the…

World hunger, nuclear weapons, and rising sea levels, these are all world problems that serve as evil today. As ISIS and North Korea try to cover the globe in their darkness, national powers attempt to cleanse the world of their evil presence. Good vs Evil is everywhere today, but in some places there seems to be only evil and hardly any good. The world can be a scary place, however there is some good like the geniuses that make daily breakthroughs. These are the people that bring good to…

The smell of smoke enters the cave and I'm instantly woken up by it. The sound of the kookaburra rings throughout the bush land. My first thought was that Uncle Bardy was starting a fire for a smoking ceremony and I raced outside to join. I'm surprised when I see a burnt out fire and birds scavenging around looking for food. In the distance I see where the smell of smoke is coming from. I walk over to the edge of the hill and peer out over the bay where the smoke is still rising. I'm shocked at…

My thoughts on burning books is you should not do it, there is no point in it at all the book has not hurt or harmed you in any way shape or form if you think the book is a bad book do Not read the book. The book may have some wording you do not agree with but that does Not give you the right that an author has taken his time and hard work to go out and burn the book. If you think the book is that bad then don't even look at it. “The nazi’s did not burn books”(paragraph 1 of Heinrich Heine…

A Revolutionary Pyromaniac In Ray Bradbury's, Fahrenheit 451 he uses a series of powerful symbols in order to give the plot a much deeper meaning. He refines the theme of the story by using symbols such as the hearth, salamander, the sieve, the sand and the Phoenix. Ray Bradbury essentially reveals the cyclical nature of mankind and their capabilities of utopian creation versus dystopian destruction. In Fahrenheit 451, fire symbolizes destruction, knowledge and as well as self-awareness. The…

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s the year 2020, Kanye is president, and books have been wiped out. Not a single book in sight. You hide one, you’ll be found and arrested, and your books will be burned up in flames. Guy Montag, a fireman, curious about books and the past, begins to adventure into an unknown world of books. One girl, it’s all it took to make Montag question everything he’s ever known. Her name…

The novel can still be used as a warning to people in america by letting us americans know our mind is too much in the television and our technologies instead of enjoying life”stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. The novel is really about burning book and montag is a fireman so that's what he do for a living and he love his job but in our society firemen don't burn…