Fear In Fahrenheit 451

In the beginning of the story, Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag was just another “normal” person in the society. He lived with his wife Mildred, he worked as a fireman, who had a pleasure of burning books. He let the government control his life, easily manipulating his mind. Montag was considered “happy” just like the rest of the civilization, living a life like others, no room to contemplate life choices or self-reflect on true motives. Until a seventeen-year-old girl, named Clarisse came in the picture.

Knowledge is power. A power that gives the people their right to have influence in society. Imagine a world where this power was taken away. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a fireman named Guy Montag lives in a society some time in the future where a fireman’s job is to burn all books in order to prevent people from trying to revolt against the government with knowledge, and the books are replaced by mindless technology. Montag is originally one of the majority of people who is brainwashed and conforms to this society. After meeting an unusual teenager named Clarisse who introduces him to books, Montag starts to wonder what books are really like. As he begins reading literature, Montag breaks away from the others and becomes one of these non-conformists himself, speaking out against the corrupt society. Many key aspects of the society set up by Bradbury show how technology has destroyed this fictional society and causes readers to notice similarities in today’s real society.

Once there was lonely man, his name unknown to the world. All his life he wondered what his purpose was. He dreamed of becoming a broadway singer and actor, but he could not. His society restricted and made him work a job for the good of the society, so he had to work as a handyman and forever be depressed because he could never do what he wanted. This enriching story shows the true face of a dystopia. Dystopias restrict freedoms and in the end leads to the breakdown of society. It is important to always be aware of the possible sign of a dystopia and stop them from happening, but sometimes no matter what people do their beloved world takes a turn for the worst. In the inspiring story of “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, the motif fear or lack

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 utilizes vivid descriptions and powerful similes to express the importance of engaging in activities that challenge you and give you the ability to stop and reflect; furthermore, Bradbury creates a dystopian society to argue the danger of suppressing individuality because it results in people's ideas being molded by society. One afternoon, Montag meets Faber, an old man who used to teach English at a university. Faber expresses the importance of reading, saying that books have quality and give you the ability to challenge the ideas. Montag replies, saying his wife, Mildred, doesn’t believe books are ‘real’. Faber replies, “Thank god for that”.

Books have the power to to influence and change one’s life forever; it gives them hope and courageousness in any situation. In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, a man named Montag wants to find the truth. In a society where books are against the law, Montag-,with the help of a few others, discovers the true beauty behind books. The theme of the power of books is shown when the lady voluntarily dies for books, when Faber and Montag create a plan against the firemen, and the hobos’ telling of their life stories.

In this society, it is important to read a book for own knowledge. However, in novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, people are not allowed to read any book nor have any desires to read. They do not know the importance of the book. However, in this novel, three people influence Montag that human should read books and allows him to realize how important it is to do so.

To begin, every journey begins with a starting point, whether it be making a small decision, or learning something new. Whatever it may be, the impact it has been tremendous, and the root of all expeditions. “He [Guy Montag]wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” (Bradbury, 9) At the beginning of “Fahrenheit 451”, Montag meets a young girl, Clarisse McClellan, who sparks a peculiar, strange conversation with Montag. Leaving him to question his

Jason Rosa May 17, 2015 English Period D Mr.Miszkiewicz Allusions with Julius Caesar In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, multiple allusions are exemplified throughout the novel. An allusion is something in a book that references back to a historical place, time and or person. Throughout the duration of the novel, the ultimate allusion is displayed in the moment when Beatty quotes Julius Caesar. On page 162, Beatty will demonstrate how he’s more similar than not to the infamous Julius Caesar, along with the circumstances and indirect irony the author conveys.

Guy Montag is the protagonist and central character of the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury that transforms from a conformist in a totalitarian society to rebuilding a society that reads books. Montag fits the cliché description of a good-looking male with “black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look.” (Bradbury, 33)  For the past eight years he has burned books. He is a 3rd generation firefighter, who in the beginning of the story, loves his job, which consists of burning the homes of people who perform criminal acts of reading and keeping books in their homes. By understanding Montag’s relationships, discontentment, and future, one can begin to understand the complexities of Guy Montag.

I never understood why our society had so much problems. Some problems are an easy fix but nobody is willing to fix them, then I was told that people have to vote on things and priorities on what's most important. Most people don’t want dramatic change to happen especially if the people in the government is telling them all the benefits if we vote to just say the same. But change is essential so we can all grow, as a nation or as a person. When I read Fahrenheit 451 I noticed that Montag’s society had the same fear, of change.

In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is seen as the main character and the reason for this whole story because without him there would not be a story at all. However, while Montag is the central character his path is laid out for him by the other characters in the novel. These characters play the most important role in creating the feel of the story. Bradbury comments on humanity's urge to suppress what they do not understand. Clarisse McClellan appearance, actions, ideas, and relationships give important insight to the story. In this paper, I will be discussing the evolution of Clarisse's impact on Montag’s eyes and how she acted as the domino that set Montag on this life-altering story where he grows from a non-questioning consumer to a self-aware individual that betrays his dystopian society. I will also be using Jerome Bruner “The Narrative Creation Of Self” to support my thesis. “A self-making narrative is something of a balancing act. It must, on the one hand, create a conviction of autonomy, that one has a will of one’s own, a certain freedom of choice, a degree of possibility. However, it must also relate one to a world of others—to friends and family, to institutions, to the past, to reference groups. But there is an implicit commitment to others in relating oneself to others that, of course, limits our autonomy. We seem virtually unable to live without both, autonomy and commitment, and our lives strive to balance the two. So do the self-narratives we tell

The society in which Fahrenheit 451 is set is characterized by its pleasure-seeking and distraction-filled culture, intolerance of self-expression and mindless entertainment. Through the sudden, ‘accidental’, death of Clarisse and the woman who refused to leave her house as the firemen burned all her books, the novel proves this society's need to eliminate anyone who goes against the general social conformity. As Beatty explains how their world came to be as it is, Montag asks about Clarisse and Beatty responds, “The girl? She was a time bomb. The poor girl's better off dead,” and then adds, “Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. We know how to nip most of them in the bud, early” (57). Through his explanation of their current society,

For every student, there is a teacher. In Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse and Beatty are the two main influences in Montag’s life that travel an attitude reversing journey with him and teach him about himself along the way. Clarisse is an outcast who teaches how him to enjoy the little things in life and shows him that there is more to life other than this corrupted society. Beatty, his boss, was the final change in Montag that caused the last turning point in the novel. Guy Montag experiences a character transformation from a mindless fireman who enjoys his book burning job, into a literate being who is well aware of the world around him with the help of Clarisse and Beatty.

“Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator. He caught her, shrieking. He held her and she tried to fight away from him scratching,” (63). In the novel Fahrenheit 451 follows the protagonist, Guy Montag, and his interactions with society discouraging and encouraging his discovery of the illegal books. Along the way he understands who are the poisonous people in his dystopian world and who are not; changing his perspective to lose trust in his wife Mildred, from previous quote, and finding safety with Faber, a retired professor he came by one day in a park. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author demonstrates the idea that when there is censorship in the world, ignorance will follow because when a subject is hidden from one anything they do regarding it is under the impression of their lack of knowledge surrounding the topic, this becomes more relevant when Ray Bradbury acknowledges the emotions of people who have read books and whom haven't and their general opinions of them.

How Literature makes us be Fearless in Life Literature helps us be fearless throughout our lives through quotes, books, magazines, dialogue, and more. These selections can carry quotes and ideas to make you less fearful in life by demonstrating perseverance, dilemma solving, and more. Literature demonstrates how to be brave and what it is like to be brave. An example in literature that demonstrates how fear is the only thing that holds us back is from the book Life of Pi when the author is giving his opinion on fear.