Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

Often in literature a character who is alienated from society. In Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse McClellan is alienated from her society. Clarisse is alienated through her abnormal values, her family’s values, and by not attending to society’s norm. This can show, through her alienation, her society’s morals and values.

Montag feels at the begining of the novel that the communication is greatly lacking in society. People are becoming very ignorant and turning reallife realationships aside. They now turn to their "tv families". One victim of neglecting real life realtionships is Mildred, Montag's wife. Montag truley hates this. "Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (2.125). Montag hopes that his wife and him can rejoin their connection through the books, but is sadly wrong and must find some one else, Faber.

“’Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames’” (Bradbury 6). In the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a fireman, someone that burns books for the government to keep a firm control on what knowledge society has. However, through a series of events populated by an attempted suicide, a young girl, and an old man, Montag is shown a life where books are treasured instead of feared and hated. Armed with a vision of what the world has been, and could be like again, Montag ultimately meets up in the aftermath of a war with others that share his vision, and they begin their mission to make fire something other than a source of fear: a healing power.

1. Mildred says these words to Guy Montag. She tells him that books aren’t people which are found in her TV parlor which she enjoys being with. She calls the people on the TV her family. She compares the books to her TV. She says that the people on the TV tell her things and make her laugh and they are full of colors, whereas the books are black and white and don’t make sense to anybody and doesn’t make her laugh instead makes her feel bad.

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” -Yehuda Bauer. In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray bradbury, Montag did not stand by and observe the corruption of the government, but instead took matters into his own hands and rebelled for what he believed in. A person is able to rebel when they cannot think their own way, when they are forced to do something, and the uneasiness of being unsafe.

“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. 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 for you, somehow. (Page 21)

Throughout the book characters show the theme of distractions. Captain Beatty is the Captain of the fire department, he knows how to read but hates doing it, and everyone who wants to learn. Montag burns Beatty because he finds out that Beatty made montag burn his own house because he had books and because he thinks that books are

In a society where firefighter’s purposely burn books, anything is possible. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a firefighter, Guy Montag, follows the rules and expectations of burning books. The job of a firefighter is to burn books because they are banned in the society Montag is a part of. Throughout the book Montag meets various characters that create curiosity and help him gain knowledge about the rules of his society. In the end, Montag is able to develop his own opinions and views about the rules he is following.

In Fahrenheit 151, a book written by Ray Bradbury, one of the major points of the plot is censorship. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist, begins to steal books from the fires he’s responded to and hides them inside his air vent. Beatty, his chief, explains how books used to be and how citizens were horrified and offended by them. Authors began to edit their books, trying not to offend anyone, and as a result, began to create dull and boring books. Society then decided to burn all the books then have more people offended by them. Montag then decides to talk to Faber, a retired professor who team up to start planting reprinted books in houses for firemen to find. After trying to show his wife about the books and how useful they are, his wife betrays Montag by burning his house down. This was society’s way of censorship, by banning books that promote free thinking.

Picture society in a couple hundred years where nothing will ever be the same. Laws will be changed, technology will be more advanced and no one will remember how life previously was. People will live in a society where the government will control everyday living, and technology will over power one’s mind. Dystopian films and stories are not used to predict the future but to guide you if something like that were to ever come about. One key factor that influences the story or film is how the author or producer uses stylistic elements to send a social commentary message to the audience. The conversational sentence structure in Fahrenheit 451 creates an informal tone. The story, being told in third person, contemplates the events from the protagonist's

By analyzing the story Fahrenheit 451, it can be proven that Millie had the chance to change in the story, but decided not to.

Barton and Montag:Two men, one zeal Often times, when people set their mind to something, they will go as far as that cause brings them. Whether it be for better or for worse. In the stories, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and “Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin, both characters, Montag and Barton, are highly devoted to a cause. The similarities between Barton and Montag are pronounced and they deserve thorough investigation.

Thesis The theme of actions have consequences, applies in both Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut. First Example from Fahrenheit 451: To begin, in Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, a citizen tipped off the firemen about her neighbor, who might own unauthorized book. Almost instantaneously, the firemen appeared at the suspicious neighbor’s front door.

Being told you’re happy and believing it doesn’t make it true. Fahrenheit 451 is about a society that bans books and promotes violence and TV. The people in Fahrenheit 451 think that they are happy because what they live with seems normal to them. However, when a character realizes the world they live i has not always been the same, they become unhappy.

A society that values technology and suppresses knowledge has been brainwashed into believing what others have deemed unnecessary, although not true. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury depicts Montag’s cold, lifeless room in order to suggest that the technology-ruled, dystopian society has been corrupted, leading to a feeling of emptiness.