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Fahrenheit 451 Impact On Society

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Books were invented many years ago and have a big impact on our society we live in today. Many religions follow the text from books and used it today as a guide in the way they live. Imagine every single book and research topic were to be abolished and you had no knowledge of William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, and the holy bible. All you know is what you're told by the government. Ray Bradbury's establish a profound system in which people are not allowed to read books to people to question the world around them and think for themselves. Montag is a proud fireman who obtains pleasure from burning books, but he slowly starts to question the reason why he does it. Montage loves the way that fire burns books and completely blacken it turning …show more content…

Clarisse is not getting the feeling that she thinks she would get from a fireman. "you're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn’t seem right to you, somehow"(Bradbury pg26). This made Montag feel hotness and coldness, softness and a hardness. This shows the amount of feelings Montag gets from being around her. This shows that Montag is in an identity crisis during his conversation with Clarisse. Montag doesn't know if his profession of being a fireman is right or wrong. " you laugh when I haven't been funny, and you answer right off. You never stop to think ever asked you". This quote really shows the character development of Montag from being an ordinary fireman to someone Clarisse feels comfortable around. Furthermore, Montag is now starting to get more comfortable around Clarisse and her thoughts on the …show more content…

1). This quote shows the relation Hitter army and the fireman of Fahrenheit 451 have in common. This quote goes to show the similarities between the book and the real-life attempt of Hitler to remove books. "the Nazis went further; using new technologies, they attempted one of the largest mind control experiments in history by setting up state-controlled schools and a propaganda machine which censored all ideas and information in the public media"(Elle Edward pg 1). This quote is closely related in the way how the television is used to control people and tell them the information that is given in the utopia they live in. Hitler also tries to do the same but with mind control altogether. Last Ray Bradbury's establish a profound system in which people are not allowed to read books in order to get people to question the world around them and think for themselves. Montag feelings slowly changing and slowly getting close to Clarisse but being a fireman who's supposed to be burning books shows that he's slowly thinking for himself more and more as the story goes on and starting to make his own decisions even in a world you are not allowed to just like Hitler was trying to introduce during WWII. Books were invented many years ago but and been around forever could you

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