Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

The future is here, and reading books is illegal and can be punishable by death. The only problem is no one questions this or sees the danger that this could cause. In Ray Bradbury’s story, “Fahrenheit 451,” a middle-aged man named Guy Montag begins to realize that there is more to the world than what society tells them. Despite living in a time where shallow technology is taking over the world and how people think, Montag manages to unravel the truth of books and stories. As conflict with Montag’s dystopian society transforms him into a more inquisitive person, multiple themes are revealed and related to Montag’s dynamic character.

Bradbury’s use of a simile helped me as a reader understand how Montag felt when he met Clarisse, then coming home to see his wife, Mildred laying on the bed with seashells in her ears and staring at the ceiling every night. The way the author described Montag as his smile fading away shows that he is not feeling his wife anymore versus how he felt while walking with Clarisse who has more of bubbly personality. In this passage, Montag has just found his wife, Mildred laying

This passage confuses me because he had never before referred to Clarisse as a friend, they had only know each other for a couple weeks at the most. Montag’s wife was also not dying in the book so that also didn’t make sense to me at all. The person that could have been his friend would likely never be his friend because where would they have never met if they weren’t already friends. Going along with the book it sounds like making new friends and talking a lot is abnormal so it would have drawn suspicion if they did talk and become friends. I find it abnormal that he would remember someone from a year ago and to trust the man he didn't know. Why would he do so? For all he could have known was that the old man was undercover and trying to trick him into something stupid. You shouldn’t trust someone like that when you’re only met once before.

Ray Bradbury had many life experiences that he will never forget. One idea he got for Fahrenheit 451 was from a police officer. He was walking with a friend on a empty sidewalk. The officer had pulled over and was talking to them about being a pedestrian. That idea was later used to describe a character getting shot for “being a pedestrian”.

A quote from the song says, “Off in the distance, there is resistance bubbling up and festering” (Imagine Dragons 3). Faber could be singing this because he disagrees with the rules of society and knows that he is not the only one, therefore being resistant. However, he prefers to keep at a distance and stay safe in his home. “Faber peered out, looking very old in the light and very fragile and very much afraid” (Bradbury 46). In Fahrenheit 451, Faber helps Montag in his plans to bring back books and change society, but he stays in the comfort of his own home for fear of being hated by the society. Faber would also say, “Here in the heckle, Holding the shackle, I was never welcome here” (Imagine Dragons 6). Faber was originally an English

Have you ever had the odds all stacked up on you before and you had to work so hard to prove everyone wrong? This is demonstrated all throughout the book Fahrenheit 451, an example of this is when Faber tells Montag that he is crazy and he will never be able to find the true reason why they are burning and getting rid of all of the books. Montag who is the main character in this book is a middle aged fireman. But in this book the firemen start fires instead of putting them out. As the book goes along Montag starts to wonder why books are so bad and why he has to burn them but he never got a real answer from anyone they all just did as they were told. He wants to prove that books aren't bad for you and they are actually good for you

“Great minds think alike” is a popular quote in the world today. It means that more often than not, great minds have similar ideas. But what if everyone thought the same way? Would we be so great then? The book Fahrenheit 451 explores this idea by creating themes around censorship and knowledge, as well as the discontentedness that comes along with a combination of these things. The author manages to develop and tie these three ideas together into a central theme by the end of the book. Throughout this novel Bradbury implies that a lack of happiness or contentedness is caused not by knowledge or ignorance, but by censorship.

Full Name Ms. Graham Literature & Writing, period (-- removed HTML --) > Date (-- removed HTML --) > In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses Captain Beaty, Guy Montag, and Mildred to demonstrate that censorship leads to a better economy and a more equal society at the cost of human individuality. Captain Beatty is portrayed to be someone who is a staunch upholder of the law and is used by Bradbury to explain to both Montag and the readers how a society can seem fair, but at a price. After Montag sees a woman who the firemen were confiscating books from burning by her own hand, he stayed home to possibly read the book he smuggled from her home, to understand why she would die for such a thing.

This is a quote that has made people think in many ways and the use of it in Fahrenheit 451 just makes us think even more. This quote is from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is ironic that the first book Montag reads from is one that condemns a government and society. The quote is: “It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end.” The Lilliputians (the tiny people in Gulliver's Travels) have an ongoing threat from a neighboring island which coincides with how Montag is threatened by his society and government.. The cause of the argument is a disagreement over the way an egg should be broken. Those people who have chosen to die to have chosen to go

In the book, “ Fahrenheit 451”, society currently does not allow the public to read books and gain knowledge. Knowledge is facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Society in real life, however, allows individuals to read and gain knowledge. Reading and knowledge are important to a society’s wellbeing, but can bring uneasiness and cause uncomfortableness, as shown in Fahrenheit 451. Montag decides to read a poem to the ladies; Mrs. Phelps bawls her eyes out.

In the Book Fahrenheit 451, fire chief Beatty explains to Montag, a firefighter, how firefighters got their new role and how their society functions. Throughout their conversation, Beatty explains how firefighters went from putting out fires to enforcing the ban on books by burning down houses of people who were discovered to still own books. In my opinion, after reading the novel Fahrenheit 451, my perspective on equality and happiness has been challenged but hasn’t changed. Their society in the novel is worse than ours because they chose to achieve equality by removing media and books that were seen as offensive, massively speeding up entertainment, and having people ignore the bad things that are happening in the world to keep them happy.

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them” In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury depicts a dystopian society in which books are not allowed and banned by the government. In this futuristic society firemen start fires rather than put them out. Bradbury masterfully writes about topics such as unfair government, euphoria, and lack of contentment in one's job, proving the idea that rebellion is acceptable when the Government is cruel and discriminatory, when your contentment is harmed, and when you have disbelief in your profession.

Throughout the novel, Clarisse is the rare seedling of hope in Montag’s barren world. As the amity between the two characters strengthens and Clarisse revels in catching a glimpse of the man on the moon and tilting her head back to taste the rain, Montag is finally jolted awake. At last, he begins to look — really look — at the world around him. And the result is astonishing: for the first time in his life, he truly feels something. As his perception finally clears and he absorbs his

“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.

Winston Churchill once said “A man does what he must. In spite of consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures. And that is the basis of all human morality.” To Guy Montag that’s what he does, what he must do to live in their horrid society even if it meant burning people, their hopes, their dreams, and their livelihoods into ash. Unlike our own society Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 has many differing aspects than our current reality such as their use of emotions, consequences, and tensions.