Montag's Loss Of Happiness In Fahrenheit 451

According to Gilens & Page “The 90% of non wealthy americans have statistically insignificant… near zero effect on public policy.” Looking at this quote you may start to worry and question your government. It gives you a loss of hope most likely. That’s a normal rational fear. To wonder if your society or government or community is in the wrong? That’s why we have the 2nd constitutional right bare arms because of this fear. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Montag does the same exact thing. He disagrees how his society is lacking empathy and selflessness, genuine emotions and happiness, appreciation to philosophically and intelligent thought. He feels so strongly that he rebels to try and shed light on what 's happening. In Montag’s society happiness

He starts to realize that it’s acceptable to rebel against this when clarisse says “ when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don 't care as long as they 're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone 's happy.” (Bradbury 28) In the quote you see that everyone is careless and the cops don’t care if life are at stake. They have no emotion that this is dangerous and probably kills people everyday. This makes Montag think if people truly care about others and he starts to rebel by thinking about how maybe people should care and talk to others and find true happiness instead of racing around. Later in the book Montag starts to be daring and questions mildred. “How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” (Bradbury 49). In this he is trying to expose mildred to see that everyone is used to desensitizing their feelings, her herself being a victim. He wants to show her that deep thought and disturbing emotions is what

Overall, Montag rebelled for many reasons. But, the fact that intellectually and philosophically thought were criticized, so greatly in his soceity that their were rules against it, gave him another reason to rebel. For example, when Beatty was lecturing Montag because Montag questioned him and the rules. Beatty stated “...the word ‘intellectual’, of course, became a swear word it deserved to be” (Bradbury 55). In this strong statement, it’s clear that being smart is seen as unacceptable and disregarded. It being seen as an insult to you if you are intelligent makes you not be intelligent, and fit into the normal, wanted lifestyle that authorities enforced. Beatty also exclaimed to Montag that “Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology” (Bradbury 58) This gives you a perspective of Philosophy. Making it seem like it’s something dangerous and undesirable. Beatty giving philosophy and sociology a bad connotation, so that Montag is persuaded not to rebel, and society is not in the wrong. Beatty, still trying to convince Montag that what firemen do is good and that you don’t want to be a misfit and think otherwise. He explains to Montag that “If you don 't want a man unhappy politically, don 't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none" (Bradbury 58). Him saying this makes you think it’s better to give people no decisions. Rather don’t let them worry about anything so they don’t feel like they should have