William Guy

1. "It 's fine work. Montag burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That 's our official slogan. -Guy Montag (page 6) Montag talks with Clarisse for the first time and she asks him interesting questions about his work as a fireman. For example: "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" And then Montag explains Clarisse their official firemen slogan. Millay, Whitman and Faulkner were famous American authors during the 19th century. Their books…

Guy Montag isn 't afraid of books. He hides them at home and wants to keep them. He sees in them no danger. Additionally he also isn 't afraid of reeding the books. It 's said, that they have nothing to say and only make you unhappy. But for Montag it 's…

“Will you turn the parlour off?" asked Guy Montag to his wife. "That 's my family." Mildred replied. She is so obsessed with her televisions that she believes it 's part of the family. Mildred is not the only mind that has been corrupted by technology. The firemen believe that technology…

“Anthem”, written by Ayn Rand, is a story about Equality 7-2521, and all of his trials in loveless world in which even the words mine and I are forbidden. This world’s technology level has dropped to the point where they use candles instead of light bulbs. Equality 7-2521 discovers a dark tunnel and uses things he has found in it to create a basic light bulb. He wants to show it to the World Council of Scholars, but they don’t accept it. Equality runs away into the forbidden forest with…

Anthem is a book that was written by Ayn Rand in 1938. The setting is in a communist community in the future where man has entered another dark age. One man in the community, Equality 7-2521, is different from all his brothers and tells himself that he is cursed because he speaks unspeakable things and wishes for things no men wish for. The community they all live in has many rules and nobody has any freedom. The new society that Equality will create will have three main rules that are free…

laziness. The book is about what will happen in the future sooner than later. The book had three major influences which were nazi book burnings, the cold war and advancement of technology. There are three main characters. The first main character is Guy Montag. He is a thirty year old fireman and is married. His job is burning books. During the book, he changes from burning books to saving books so his purpose is going against the government. He said ”’...there must be something in…

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the book-saver, tried to escape the world of the overwhelming technology. Social activities were replaced by inane TV shows where clowns tear their limbs apart, families are replaced by the “family” on the television, and where thoughts are stopped by deafening TV commercials. Bradbury’s vision of today seems to be precise seeing that people started to care less about each other, people stop thinking due to the overload of technological…

President John F. Kennedy once said “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” The concept of conformity and individuality is clearly illustrated in the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Like most dystopian novels, Fahrenheit 451 contains a damaged society in which the people use technology as a distraction to avoid any critical thinking. The lack of meaningful relationships that the masses have with their family displays technology’s negative impact on this society.…

Book Thief Essay Through the skillful use of indoctrination one can make people believe one race is better than another or that an extremely wretched life is paradise. Uncritically believing and following someone because one has been conditioned to, is an essential aspect in the novel “The Book Thief”. In the novel, by Markus Zusak there are several significant moments that protrude to let the reader concentrate on the overall motif of indoctrination. Zusak portrays the motif of indoctrination…

Although many underlying messages are prominent throughout this novel the main overlying theme is that blind acceptance of societal norms is a catalyst for the loss of oneself .This is expressed continuously by the action taken by characters throughout the novel. At the start of Fahrenheit 451 Montag seems perfectly happy accepting his occupation of destroying literature as a fireman. This false sense of happiness begins to come unraveled as Montag meets Clarisse. Clarisse helps to establish…