Examples Of Satire In Fahrenheit 451

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, satire is used to highlight and emphasize problems in society. Satire is the use of exaggeration to criticize problems in society. The novel is about a society where all books are banned. The general public move at a swift pace and don’t stop to contemplate problems in the world around them. Television and radio are what they center their lives around and the media itself is monitored and censored by the government. Guy Montag is a fireman whose entire world views are changed when Clarisse moves into his neighborhood. Montag winds up smuggling a book, and asks cowardly Faber to help him understand books and to help him. When Montag is caught with the book, he’s given a day to get rid of it. Beatty finds out that he hasn’t got rid of it when Mildred puts out a call to his house. Beatty demands he burn the house down and Montag refuses. Beatty provokes Montag and Montag burns him alive, along with the Hound. Montag manages to salvage a few books and plants them in firemen’s houses to make time to run the Faber’s house. At Faber’s he puts on his clothes and leaves. He is chased to a river; where he loses the authorities. Montag finds a group of people who have memorized books and joins up with them, just in time to see his town blown

When Montag starts to read a book, he doesn’t understand the language very well. When there isn’t any creative thinking, everyone is the same. There is no meaningful thought going on. Children and teens are sent to school for hours and when they get home spend more time on their electronics than with their families. In fact, Mrs. Bowles says, “You heave them into the ‘parlor’ and turn the switch.”(p.93). A consequence of being uncreative is that no one is living meaningfully. New ideas aren’t being thought of and people aren’t feeling anything. Mildred is driven so far that she overdoses on sleeping