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Fahrenheit 451 Dialectical Journal

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Semester One Final
Prompt 1 I believe that when Montag was at the climax of his rage and holding a flamethrower to Beatty and threatening to kill him Beatty continued to insult him and then asked Guy to hand the flamethrower over he didn’t want to die. Though Beatty was insulting Montag even though he was being held at gunpoint when Beatty started talking about himself and then insulting Montag’s literature knowledge and asking for him to give the flamethrower back he proved that he really didn’t want to die. One of the key things that Beatty said to Montag was that “There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am armed so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle wind, which I respect not! How's that? Go ahead now you second-hand …show more content…

Some of the things that are paralleled in the book and 1950’s society are the idea of a perfect society and a perfect family and a perfect world where everyone was always happy the entire time. We see from the book that everyone seemed to be happy because they were too busy being distracted go to work so that they can have the money that they need to buy all of the distractions that they spend the rest of their waking hours using and worshiping. Though there was less of this type of behavior in 1950’s society because they were not many distractions this idea that Bradbury illustrated in his book that is set in the future that is our today he almost perfectly predicted the future and what we have become and how we are beginning to act and think and feel. After reading this book it is shocking how similar the people of the 1950’s are to the people of the book the women in the story are still expected to cook and to do all of the housework and everyone is expected to be a perfect family/society. This is best displayed with Mildred during the day she looks like the perfect woman but the night that she turned in Montag and was running away from the house she was described has a “her body stiff, her face floured with powder and her mouth gone without the

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