The main theme of the novel Fahrenheit 451 is the control of the knowledge. Ray Bradbury created this dystopian society that created many ways to limit and stop the spread of knowledge through human interaction. ** One example of these censorship limitations is the burning of books. In this society the job of the firefighters is not to stop fires, but to start them and burn all the books they find. The firefighters burn books because the government does not allow people to read whatever they desire.
Name Teacher Class Date Fahrenheit 451 Essay Burning Books The title Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which books burn, strongly depicts the meaning and illustration of this novel. All it took was one flick of a match and the kerosene swallows the house full of hidden knowledge. The houses that suffered through the consuming fire smolder for days, but Montag’s heart would smolder for the rest of his life. The number on Montag’s helmet, 451, not only symbolized books burning, but also stood for the destruction of wisdom. Montag realized he was not just burning the books but also the author, and the author’s knowledge behind each one.
Captain Do It All flew up to try and stop Book-burning-ben, Captain Do It All tried reasoning with him but he was not having it. Bookburningben tried to fire at hero when all of a sudden hero turned invisible. Book-burning-ben looked lost and confused when out of nowhere Captain Do It All tied a rope around Book-burning-ben and the brawl was over. Captain Do It All came down to help clean up with all of the mess Book-burning-ben had made. After the mess was clean he told us that he was good friends with the book company and that the schools were going to get better books.
After, while Montag was igniting his house, Beatty claimed, "When you're quite finished, you're under arrest" (Bradbury 111). Captain Beatty was also reading books in his life secretly. But instead, he punishes Montag for reading books secretly just like him. Betraying others cannot reward you in the end; Captain Beatty died with pain from the heat of a
Enough to make it know that he, Guy Montag had a book within his possession beneath his own pillow; although he didn’t blatantly state aloud, he did in fact ask Beatty this question, “ Well, then, what if a fireman accidentally, really not intending anything, takes a book home with him? ” (62) Montag. My only question would be, why allow yourself to be found out? It’s simply outrageous if you ask me. Everyone has a breaking point; Montags just so happened to be witnessing a woman commit suicide while he was on the job.
“Religious themes are always close to the surface in Fahrenheit 451. Primarily this occurs in the form of a bible that Montag saves from a fire. This is the book that precipitates his final crisis when he finds that he has been caught taking a book and cannot bring himself to submit the bible to be burnt.”(Kerr). Montag tries to talk to woman out staying, but she does not listen. She lights the match herself and is burned with the
“As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma” (140). From all the blood, whipping, and torture she saw at the celebration, Lenina started to endured some sad emotions. In order to rejuvenate herself, she went on a soma-holiday. Lenina was so confused with this different celebration because she never thought that there was a place so different from the conditioning and rules that she obeys back in London. The State purposely sets up society to where everyone is always busy with something and so that the citizens are never alone or sidetracked from what they were occupied with.
Justin Trapp Mrs. Allen English 10 8 January 2015 The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in 1953. The story of a fireman Guy Montag. In the beginning he is a loyal person that starts fire instead of putting them out. Montag being a fireman in Bradbury’s book does not mean extinguishing burning materials but rather setting things on fire. In Fahrenheit 451 the lack of physical communication and relations between people due to the increase of technology which destroys the society as they seem to know it.
The disrespecting of schoolteachers and staff is a major problem today. For instance, kids in school do not even blink an eye when they are disrespecting the schoolteachers and staff. Shootings in school are almost and everyday occurrence killing several innocent students a year due to incivility in the schools. We all have experienced many acts of discourteousness in the supermarket. For example, a woman used pepper-spray on fellow shoppers in her rush to get a good deal on an Xbox 360 during Black Friday.
If he was a good person from the start he wouldn’t have become a fireman in the first place, when his curiosity built on books he was becoming greedy for the knowledge, and finally, he killed his chief because of emotions. People who have read this book might have sympathized Guy Montag for he was changing to be a better person but overall he isn’t really the best hero. In Fahrenheit 451, the beginning of the book describes Montag doing his job as a fireman, a man who burns books. Books were considered illegal and so these men would have to search for them and burn them. These men were considered the “bad guys” right off the bat and Montag was a part of them.