Fahrenheit 451 Analysis

Society can change a person positively or negatively. In the novel Fahrenheit 51, by Ray Bradbury, Mildred is the wife of the main character Guy Montag. Society has made Mildred feel self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.

After reading the article Are We Living In Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 I have come to the conclusion that I do agree we are living in Fahrenheit 451 for many reasons.

Ray Bradbury was a man of his time. He was able to accurately predict the future in Fahrenheit 451. He shows that our societies are not different. In Montag 's Society people show desensitization, brainlessness, and self-centeredness. The streets are shown everywhere in the 21st-century. From children two adults, almost everyone can relate.

Is there anyone that you know who truly represents the role of society as a whole? As the main character in Fahrenheit 451 who accurately portrays the world in which Montag lives, Mildred serves a prime example of someone like this. Mildred’s multi-faceted personality provides a glimpse of the easily-influenced and corrupt society. Her overuse of technology causes naivety, and the ignorant people with which she surrounds herself with played the role of deceiving her into hating knowledge, cultivating her hatred for books. So she lives two lives; one of truth and one of utter falseness.

Technological growth is one of the biggest moving innovations in our everyday lives. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury speaking about the future society where books are outlawed and no one thinks for themselves. Bradbury speaks about the struggle that certain characters have trying to involve books back into society. In our everyday lives, we are constantly flooded with social media and always have a need to pick up our phones. Children are beginning to learn keyboarding at a much younger age, as opposed to working on their penmanship. Bradbury envisioned a fantasy of a society where books became not only unspoken of but were classified as weapons.

In today’s society, technology plays a very important role in its ability to function, it helps people find information, communicate with others far away and provides entertainment. In “Fahrenheit 451”, a book written by Ray Bradbury, a dystopian future where books have been made illegal is presented. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, raises many questions about technology and its effects on society. It’s quite evident that we have become quite dependent on technology due to our overconsumption of it.

Webster’s Dictionary defines character as, “the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual”, these qualities can range from a simple opinion, to an action, to a character’s lifestyle. While Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451 and Wade from Ready Player One are both uniquely distinct, they share many qualities that unites them as one.

As Confucius once said, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” That quote ties beautifully into one of the main themes of the book “Fahrenheit 451”, which will be explained later on in-depth. A student conducting a text analysis and review of “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury will expound on the story’s strengths, weaknesses, major plot points and personal opinions. The books is about a future dystopian society that favors the burning of books by firemen and jailing the people in possession of them. The protagonist is a fireman named Guy Montag. After coming into contact with Clarisse McClellan he begins to think for himself and out side of himself for the first time in many long years. Montag latter comes to the realization

Books, in and of themselves, are simply pages filled with words, a varying combination of 26 letters bound together to make a story. Yet in reality, books are so much more than simple words; they are carefully crafted artworks that hold precious life in between their seams, life given from its author. Ray Bradbury, science fiction author and screenwriter, gave life and vivacity to all of his written works, uniquely so to Fahrenheit 451, a novel ironically focused on themes of censorship and government suppression. During his life, Bradbury experienced times of great political and social turmoil that reached its apex during the 1950s. This decade was plagued by the nuclear arms race and regional wars, racial segregation, government censorship

In the book “Fahrenheit 451”, there contained many characters whose personality traits were polar opposites. For this particular book, it fit the story line well and strengthened the overall plot as the readers were able to identify, relate to, and side with different themes and motives throughout the reading. Two sub characters that I found were quite important to the book “Fahrenheit 451” were Clarisse McClellan and Mildred Montag.

Although the advancement of technology can lead to a greater efficiency, it can also lead people to rely on these technological advances too much that can cause them to become “brainless”. Technology plays a very important aspect in the world of Fahrenheit 451. People in their society has little or no interactions with others, and can barely have a thoughtful conversation.This is seen when Mildred tells Montag, “I went to to Helen’s last night”(Bradbury 50). Montag then asks her , “Couldn’t you get the shows in your own parlor?” (Bradbury 50), and she responds by stating that “Sure, but it’s nice visiting” (Bradbury 50). This reveals how Mildred only went over to her friends house to just watch television instead of spending quality time

Fahrenheit 451 helped me recognize the positives of technology. There are some positives when you think of technolgy, like it can provide you with more knowledge, teach you new things. Technology has a possibility of making you smarter, if you use it in the right way. Technology can be used to find new ideas and information. Mildred is so caught up with technology such as the “four walls” and the “seashells”. The four walls are the television and the seashells are earbuds. Mildred seems to be peaceful, calm, free spirited, and creative. She is peaceful because she just lies around, minding her own business with her seashells in her ears. She is very calm, and unaware of things; Montag came home to Mildred just lying in bed staring at the ceiling,

As stated by Heinrich Heine, a significant German poet in the 19th century, “Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too.” Fahrenheit 451, a novel written by Ray Bradbury, describes a future society where books are forbidden. People are not allowed to read books as any books found will be burned by the “firemen”. Instead, people listen to the radio all the time and watch a vast amount of television. As a result, people stop thinking and questioning. In the novel, Ray Bradbury illustrates for the readers that book burning can destroy the society because the values of the society and measures of integrity will be altered.

Burning books is just like burning our buildings and our cities because they will both end in chaos. In Fahrenheit 451 there is no true happiness because people just do what they are told and they don’t think for themselves. Ray Bradbury in his novel, Fahrenheit 451 uses setting to show humanity and technology and how it’s similar and different to our world.

Have you ever felt like you are talking to a wall when you are being ignored? That is what technology does to family and friends. The author, Ray Bradbury, of Fahrenheit 451 states this problem with the main character, Guy Montag, and his wife, Mildred. She is always wearing her earphones listening to music. They also own three flat screen TVs the size of a wall. She has used the technology for so long that she has become addicted. It has become a part of her. She takes sleeping pills because she refuses to take the constant playing earphones off even when she sleeps said the book, “ ‘ Yes,’ he said. ‘I wanted to talk to you.’ He paused. ‘You took all the pills in your bottle last night.’ “ (Page 8 ). She even developed a way to read lips since