Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

Montag is a newborn phoenix, risen from it’s ashes, ready to begin a new life the moment he destroyed his own home, which are full of memories that’s to be left behind forever. A society of where brainwashed families spend most of their entire lives watching television and listening to seashell radios. A society of where the government prohibits the existence of books by sending firemen to incinerate them on a daily basis. This dystopian society, is where the knowledgeable are to be feared and hated. For that reason, Montag attempts to figure out why books were banned in the first place and why people would rather spend most of their hours on technology then enjoy life. In this novel of Fahrenheit 451, author Ray Bradbury persist on the idea that

Smokers are complaining about books on cancer: “Someone’s written a book on tobacco and the cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book” (Bradbury 59). Books are being burnt to ashes because it offends people. This quote from Betty to Montag informs him that people would just rather be happy then to grieve over their health and earlier death. The poem “Dover Beach” is read out loud by Montag to Mildred’s friends: “Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with alarms of struggles and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night” (100). The world is lacking in true joy, love, and sympathy given by the message of the poem. “Dover Beach” would serve as a good example of how the author of the poem explains that armies fight for no reason at all just out of ignorance. If no one is willing to face the obstacles in life then they won't be able to enjoy it