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Knowledge As Depicted In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In a society where citizens see knowledge as useless, books spill out information and are burned to ashes. The unknown knowledge makes citizens have violent actions with their anger. The fact that nobody can have a free thought of their own makes them clueless, which explains their thoughts and actions: violent or not. This book is a society where books are banned. If you owned one it was burned. Montag, the main character ,takes on many struggles. Those struggles include his wife, job, and even his own happiness when he meets a 17 year old girl, Clarisse. This girl makes montag question himself about who he loves and if he’s happy with being a fireman. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he demonstrates the idea that having a lack …show more content…

“You can’t ever have my books,” she said ... “This whole house is going up,” said Beatty” (page 38). The woman from this quote wanted to keep her books, that she was attached to, but was burned with them. All her original thoughts were burned in blazing flames, along with her house, books, and her body itself. When the characters try to protect their books they get burned to flames and the entire city comes to watch the ‘pretty’ sight. Is fire feared or loved? Loved by firman and feared by some citizens. “then he was a shrieking blaze ... no longer human or know, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (page 119). Beatty was taking away Montag's free thought, causing Montag to lose his control and burn Beatty to his death. His violence was caused by his anger from the lack of knowledge he actually had. Whenever they had their own though, they got burned. When they tried to see past the obvious, they got burned. It seems like the problem throughout the story is that no one in this society can think for themselfs. They went to work, and came home to sit and enjoy their technology. Do they really know what's happening when they are at home? Do they know that thoughts are being burned in the brain they were thought of

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