The Themes Of Society In Fahrenheit 451 By William Bradbury

Bradbury continues supporting his thesis about society in both realms, real and fictional, when Beatty says the following “The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks that much time to think while dressing at dawn.” (pg.73, 74).What Bradbury was trying to tell us with this quote is that man shortens his time needed to finish everyday tasks for which you have to plan ahead for, leaving them clueless as to what they’ll do for the rest of their day; however, this does leave people to do anything they want which consequently infuses them with bliss. Such despondent sentences further concede the novel as a dystopian one which clinches onto its dreary yet mocking tone shown at its best when Beatty gives his speech to Montag. The first sign in the novel that books were dying is that people lost interest since they demanded for books to be more entertaining using illustrations as shown here “More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less.”(pg.75). Moreover, the quote that follows is a transition for what occurs in the fore mentioned quote “So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. (pg.77).The metaphor present in the quote displays the society in the book as avaricious considering they only demand profit, thus they burn the books that are holding back the sales of magazines, leading them to become extinct objects. The quote accumulates a great spectrum of the real world in which most things are driven with the motif of money that