Fahrenheit 451 Literary Analysis

Beatty even explains to Montag, a fireman with growing inquiry, about “what traitors books can be” in attempts to deter him from reading. By traitors, Beatty means to express his coming away lost due to authors “all of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.” He argues that rather than challenging people with discovering truth themselves, it is in their best interest to not “give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.” Rather, “Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide rule,

Ignorance is seen within everyone at different times. Ignorance means to not know or remember information acquired. Mildred and her friends represent ignorance because of how they agree with false information and cannot remember the right ones. When Mildred invited her friends over Montag read them poetry, they replied by saying, “’Poetry and tears, poetry and suicide, crying, and awful feelings, poetry and sickness”’ (Bradbury 97).

“We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions. We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I” (Dickens 247) Much like Dickens, Ray Bradbury emphases the importance of choices and how difficult it is to make one. Throughout “The Sieve and the Sand” [the second part of Fahrenheit 451] Montag is faced with life breaking decisions. Montag is under the pressures of society and the government which immobilizes him from making a decision.

states,”Twain’s book is one of the most-challenged of all time and is frequently challenged even today because of its frequent use of the word “nigger.” Otherwise it is alleged the book is “racially insensitive,” “oppressive,” and “perpetuates racism” (Banned Books Week, 2000). This demonstrates that

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a novel about a futuristic society where books are banned and firemen burn books rather than put out fires. The main character Montag is a fireman who lives with his wife Mildred. Montag ends up stealing books which is against the law especially because he is a fireman; and Mildred is against anything that has to do with books. Society wants everyone to be happy but there 's an alarming mechanical hound in this novel that kills people and is asymbol of fear. Bradbury’s novel shows how a society overcomes the eradication of books through the use of symbolism, motif, and imagery.

Books are banned, and firemen burn them. Montag and his wife Mildred, a technology addict, begin to read books, slowly leading them to question the countless problems in his society. In both stories, Ray Bradbury uses tone and literary devices to show how an overdependence on technology as well as a disconnection from the

In the book To Kill a Mocking Jay by Harper Lee, the Ewell and Cunningham families are different in various ways. One difference is the level of respect they have for others. The Ewells have very little, if any respect for others. Burris Ewell is extremely rude to his teacher when she asks him to leave. He just “Laughed rudely” and says “ You ain’t sendin’ me home, missus.

His plan absolutely backfires and only after the protagonist walks off the show does he realize what a mistake he’s made. In “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, the protagonist’s ignorance to the negative impacts she makes in her community backfire on her. When Miss Strangeworth of Pleasant Street send out letters to the people of her town, she makes snide, rude and unwittingly passive-aggressive remarks. These little notes make them question their life choices and causes the people to become confused and upset about the information they receive.

The narrator disagrees with a number of groups on the way which they try to study the Library of Babel, mostly for their aggressive action and impatience. The blasphemous sect grew impatient has no regard for the sequences of the natural law of the books in the Library of Babel. He calls those who take to chance with no respect to the content of any book people who cause “divine disorder” (84). The Purifiers also were an impatient group that skimmed for books and not regarding their well-being, destroying all the bookshelves what they thought as irrelevant. Though the books may be lost the narrator brings up the following points that there are too many books that any reduction done by humans is very minor; each book will have a copy with just one minor difference, so there are technically multiple versions (85).

Several instances show in the novel that characters say something and their actions don’t match their word. For instance, when the Widow Douglas told Huck that he could not smoke because smoking was “a mean practice and wasn't clean” (2). Miss Watson herself, however, chewed tobacco. Other characters in the novel also serve as the form of satire to hypocrites. The duke, right away says that “ - all black men are thieves - ” (--).

This drawing represents when Montag got mad that he read poetry to Mildred 's friends, which is a BAD IDEA! The importance of this is that when he read the poetry, the reaction to the ladies showed that books could be bad or good. With this event, it was what lead up with Montag ending up at his house. Also, the importance of this event is that we know why the society hates books by the reaction of Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles. The poem made Mrs. Phelps cry and made Mrs. Bowles mad at Montag.

Faber is asking to get his house burnt to a crisp, but montag decide not to turn him into his higher ups. This society scares people that break the rules so much that they turn themselves in. This society makes people feel guilty for reading books. In the real world, society does something similar to this, just with opinions and not books. Society is so concerned about being politically correct , it silences people who have opposing opinions.

In dystopian literature, protagonists face societies that are perfect but are wrong and corrupt. Guy Montag and Tris Prior are two dystopian protagonists who feel trapped in their own world while questioning their governments. The two protagonists felt that something is wrong and soon help the audience recognize the negative aspects of their societies. Guy Montag lives in a bureaucratically controlled society where citizens experience censorship from all books. Montag likes most citizens never thought about the impact of books on someone life.

In Fahrenheit 451 Montag meets a seventeen year old girl that seems to change his whole world around about the way he thinks. Clarisse McClellan a young girl that sees the world a different way than others tend to. She thinks that Montag is different than other firemen because most firemen think she is crazy and just walk away from her. Clarisse has a huge imagination and is not like a regular teenager. She thinks more deeply and is bold.

In stories, a character can be influenced by many things. In Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Montag meets new people, and finds out new things about people whom he already knows. Along the way, the people he interacts with influences his choices and actions; including Clarisse, Mildred, and Faber. Frequently, Clarisse influences Montag’s choices and actions. In the beginning of the book, she influences Montag by making him realize that he is not happy with his life, by asking him the simple question, “Are you happy?”