Fahrenheit 451's 'Weaponary Book'

Knowledge can be defined as the acquaintance with facts, truths, and awareness. Inquiry is the act of questioning. In the dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451, there is a prominent lack of both knowledge and inquiry. Meaning, definition of society, the essence of happiness, growth of media, and loss of entertainment all infer the absence of thinking and questioning in the book.

Ray Bradbury, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is one of the most notable authors of the 20th century. Although he wrote over 30 novels and countless of other writings, his novel, Fahrenheit 451, is his claim to fame. Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a faux utopia without books. His novel is a critical thinking piece that criticizing censorship. Ray Bradbury’s cultural significance stems from his audacious nerve to simply release his novel.

While reading Fahrenheit 451, many different technologies were used to replace books. All of which were: TV walls, Mechanical Dogs, broadcasted commercials and ETC. The TV walls were viewed as ‘family’ to the viewers, because they made the viewers feel like their life and family were complete. “My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh they laugh!

Rationale: (197 words) The question that I chose from this unit was, “to what extent do the actions and decisions Malcolm and Montag make throughout the story portray the issues within their societies?”. I was interested by this question because of how simple of a term the question referred to and how it took the term deeper. While talking about the science fiction unit the protagonist was brought up as nothing special.

Books are a significant part of human culture, society and adored by almost everyone. In Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, it imagines a future without them. As technology progresses, the government has eliminated most of the ways of the past(including books and all literature) by creating lies through propaganda. Firemen burn books, instead of stopping fires.

Dystopia is a popular genre in which authors write about a fictional society that is perceived to be perfect and ideal by the vast majority of the people in it. Authors must intrigue the reader, and this is difficult because they have to somehow illustrate a future that is vaguely similar to ours. However, it has to be completely fictional, which makes it tough to formulate realistic storylines. Nevertheless, these authors use literary elements to counter these difficulties and produce realistic characters and you can see this when Ray Bradbury, Ayn Rand, and James Dashner use symbolism in their respected novels, Fahrenheit 451, Anthem, and The Maze Runner. This literary technique gives Dystopian Literature the uniqueness and adds the key elements to make the story flow.

A Book of Endless Lessons As the course of time runs our lives, the inhabitants of Earth rely increasingly more on the services of technology to perform our the tasks we face in our daily lives. Books are growing increasingly unpopular as modern interactive entertainment services advance. The society built by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 inhabits a shallow human race at their weakest, living false lives within the walls of their television screens.

Imagine ten years from now. The second budget has passed and we have converted to mercenaries, to defend our kidneys from HEC’s sharks and the power of the government is absolute. Our lives have become enslaved to the upcoming bills, all caused from the budget cuts of today. In essence the budget of today was a stepping stone to their grand scheme for the state to achieve dystopia, hence leading us, to the struggles between classes and society. Though such an idea may seem surreal and far too elaborate to contemplate for the government and the citizen, the speculative texts: 1984, Animal Farm, Elysium, Fahrenheit 451 and The Lord of the Flies depict how society can fall apart when too much power is given to those in charge.

Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 displays a future where the culture is cut off from its former cultural heritage and Independent thinking through the burning of books. In this dystopia,the role of the fireman as we know today had been reversed to burn books. This is seen as an American satire in the post WW2 era which shows a world where the American dream has transformed into a nightmare as innocences presumes that totalitarianism is not possible in America. T However Bradbury shows simplistic perversions of what are seen as American ideals.

Within a book many find an escape, they can create a whole new world just from a few words on a page. A single book can change a persons mindset, can make make a person laugh then cry all in the span of a few words. A book can be enjoyed anywhere anytime with little trouble. Not only are books enjoyable but they also help a person throughout their life. In the classroom or after a stressful day at work a book can be beneficial, in many different ways.

Fahrenheit 451 is set in a horrible, yet very possible, dystopian world. The setting is very undesirable because everyone thinks that books are bad so they have prohibited all of them. Everyone has this Belief because over time it has been convinced that books only bring sorrow. Most people have forgot about books and their importance, but the people who haven’t forgotten try to sneak books into their homes only to then have their homes burned, sometimes with them in it. Books are valuable, worth the time and effort, and in Montags’ world books are considered dangerous.

Fahrenheit 451 Informative Report In the story of Fahrenheit 451, there are multiple themes that are present throughout it. Some of those recurring themes are censorship and loss of human connection. These recurring themes always have some sort of connection to our characters. They either affect their ways of thinking or their overall actions in the book.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about Guy Montag and how he realized that burning books may not be an honorable thing. Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic American city where it is illegal to read or have books. On his way home, from work, he meets Clarisse McClellan, a 17 year old girl who opens his eyes to the emptiness of his life and his marriage. She asks him questions that make him think. When he is called to a house, where books are hidden, and the woman chooses to be burned than to live without her books.

Have you ever thought about how living in a dystopian society would influence your life? Well, the idea of censorship is used in the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, to make an impact on the audience. Bradbury uses certain elements of dystopia in his novel to show censorship, which significantly effects the society in the novel. For example, Bradbury uses the dystopian element that says citizens live in a dehumanized state, to show that their society believes that curiosity is unacceptable. Next, he uses the idea that in a dystopian world, information, independent thought, and freedom is restricted, to show how books are bad in their society.