Fahrenheit 451 Creativity Quotes

(AGG) Hands have always been used to create things. They separate humans from most beasts. In Ray Bradbury’s world, they separate the robots from the few humans that truly live like humans. (BS-1) Hands are used to show the lack of creativity in most citizens. (BS-2) Montag, a main character discovering his creativity, also battles with his hands. (BS-3) When the readers are introduced to the main teachers in the book, we see their hands constantly moving. (TS) Ray Bradbury, in his novel Fahrenheit 451, constantly references hands as a symbol for different forms of creativity.

(MIP-1) The author uses hands to show the lack of creativity. (SIP-A) When the reader first meets Mildred, she’s seen as a blind, society following character, due to the technology she surrounds herself with. (STEWE-1) During breakfast, the “toast popped out of the silver toaster, [and] was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delivered to her plate. She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away” (16). She couldn’t be bothered to make breakfast herself, because she was too busy listening to music. She can’t think how to put a piece of bread in the toaster, and then butter it. Her mind is too focused on her own pleasure, that she has a mechanical

(BS-3) Clarisse, Faber, and Granger are all shown bursting with this characteristic.(BS-2) Montag is seen battling these hands from the first section to the beginning of the last. (BS-1) Mildred, as well as all her friends, show their lack of creativity through their symbolically idle hands. (R) Ray Bradbury’s message still applies today. Hands are always doing something. Whether it’s contributing to the people around you, leaving behind your legacy for generations to come, or rotting away on a phone or game controller, leaving your memory to be nothing but a forgotten