Clarisse got Montag to start observing, thinking, and exploring for himself. Mildred, instead, takes his new way of thinking and tries to squash it. This is seen when Montag arrives at his house with the fellow firemen to find out that he has to burn his own home. He
She is the first person who challenges Montag and gets him to truly think. She triggers Montag’s questioning of life, what he is doing, and his relationship with his wife Mildred. Upon their first encounter Clarisse begins asking Montag questions, questions about a time when firefighters put out flames not started them, a time when life was a bit slower. She asks, “Are you happy?” once Clarisse is home Montag responds, “Of course I’m happy.
In the book “Fahrenheit 451” the government uses many strategies to control its citizens. They control the citizens through terror and intimidation. The government disposes of anybody who disobeys or speaks out against the government. One technique they use in the Fahrenheit 451 is the mechanical hound to instill fear into the people. The mechanical hound is set up in a way so that it can depict any variation in the society.
In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the citizens of a corrupt United States are controlled by the government. Books and novels have been prohibited because they contain ideas and knowledge which allow the citizens to think. The government does not approve of thinking so the books and novels get burned by firemen. Instead of reading novels, the people can only watch television and read comics and sex magazines.
Governments like to be in command and supervise its citizens. With that, there are always some citizens that will rebel over the people in charge. People will rebel because they gain much knowledge from literature, news media, entertainment, and presently, the internet that contradicts the government. The government is intelligent because it has the power to change what the people look at to make them dense and without an opinion of what the government says. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows an accurate representation of what the government does to its people.
“It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1). This is what Montag tells the reader at the beginning of the story. He loved his job as a fireman he loved to burn, but did he really love what he was doing or was he told to? In Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451, people will read about a controlled society. In this book there are firemen who don’t save houses but, burn them, books are forbidden, and you can’t walk in the streets without being caught for being suspicious.
The first president of the United States of America declared, “In a free … government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude” (AZ Quotes). George Washington is referring to the five freedoms of expression outlined in the United States Constitution: the freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. On the political spectrum, government authority ranges from absolute control (no freedoms whatsoever) to no control (men left to own desires). Various governing bodies around the globe employ diverse types of government regimes. In 1951, Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 as a cautionary tale about the threat of a government obsessed with control.
As Harry Browne once said, “Since no one but you can know what 's best for you, government control can 't make your life better.” In Fahrenheit 451, a book by Ray Bradbury, he shows ways on how the government is controlling society with surveillance, technology, and censorship. The government gets to decide what is to be done and what comes in and out of that country. In the novel, it shows how the firefighter, Guy Montag, is different than the other people in that society. These aspects of government control are directly going towards Montag because the advance in technology put into the watchdogs that are in Bradbury’s novel is unbelievable.
In addition, taking after Clarisse, Montag begins to ask questions himself, and realizes that the way society functions isn't right, and he is no longer happy with his choice of profession.(STEWE-1) " ‘I've tried to imagine,’ said Montag, ‘just how it would feel. I mean, to have firemen burn our houses and our books’” (Bradbury 31). Here, Montag has his first realization that being a fireman is not only wrong, but also an inaccurate, untruthful version of who he wants to be.(STEWE-2)
Books are often the embodiment of concepts expressed through writing that may be influential in the fields of culture, religion, and politics. Through the process of burning, books have been destroyed in order to expurgate heretical ideals in the past. Arguably the most infamous instances are the book burnings under the Nazi Party during the era of Nazi Germany. These burners of books are alluded to in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 as the firemen of the dystopian novel censor the material contained in books through the method of incineration. 1984 by George Orwell portrays the dangers of a totalitarian government including censorship as well.
Firstly, Montag stole a book to try and discover what he is missing not reading them. Clarisse at random asked Montag if he was happy, and it had never came across to Montag if he was happy. People in their society really didn't feel at all. The old woman that had rather die with her books than give them up, began to make Montag curious on why they were so special. He began to question every aspect in his life, when he does, Mildred tells Montag he should have thought before becoming a fireman.
Throughout history, a government or any higher power tends to interfere in the information the citizens receive. This is known as government censorship, and it is a common occurrence in this world as well as the fictional world of Fahrenheit 451. With this censorship or outright ban, a government intends to alter what its citizens know or believe by either tainting the information or changing it all together. There are many examples of this throughout history, and it will happen anywhere there is a controlling force. This is incredibly evident in both Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and societies where government interference is so common, many do not even notice it anymore.
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury portrays the idea of mankind controlling a dystopian society through the government. Many readers at first may think society controlled mankind throughout this book, but this idea is clearly very wrong. Society is a group of people who live together as a collective whole, like a community. The government is a group that has power over society, it manipulates society into doing whatever they want.. The government tends to reflect human nature, making it mankind.
Ray Bradbury once wrote; “Books are to remind us what asses and fools we are”. In Montag’s society, the government controls knowledge and memory. This control allows Montag’s government to do just about anything it wants. But in the end, this will negatively affect the government and its society. While there may be limited positives for some people in restricting knowledge and memory, Bradbury’s main warning was that doing this could have devastating results for everyone.
Whenever I have a big decision I have to make in my life I always go to my parents for their advice and what they think I should do. I find comfort and a sense of relief in the words of wisdom that they have to give me. The citizens of Fahrenheit 451 have the same feelings as me, comfort. In the book Fahrenheit 451, the government figure plays tricks on the citizen’s minds to get them to do what they want. The leaders of the people brainwash the resident's minds, by burning books, having addicting tv shows, shaming people who have their own ideas, and the element of fire.
