Reality In Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury's thought that fiction is "the reality, surrounding us which has been brought to the point of absurd”, perhaps is the main idea of the novel "451 ° Fahrenheit". If we will open our eyes and look around, we will notice the furious tempo of life and the people, programmed to work just like robots. Sleep-work-entertainments-sleep… Aren’t cars even today rushing at mad speeds, striving to bring down the pedestrian, going across the street? Aren’t numerous characters from TV series superseding the real people from the heads of their audiences? Aren’t modern parents settling down their children in front of the screens of TV, so kids will not disturb them? Isn’t it true, that nowadays every second person walks around with the music, rattling from the headphones? Isn’t chasing the person a reality-show, which is crumbed to us by the modern television? Aren’t these the attributes of our world? Well, if not, then at least they are the features of the reality, described in the book “Fahrenheit 451”. And in fact, the whole story is the story of the spiritual formation of the…show more content…
After this meeting, the usual house seems to be a cold, impervious gloom. Room looks more like a grave, which is not reachable by any sound of a big city. Montag finally sees his wife: "hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, the reddened pouting lips, and her flesh like white bacon” and realizes, that their marriage has turned into an empty fiction. Clarisse’s absurd death aggravates the situation: he rethinks the world in which they live, learns to think, secretly taking books to the house. A new spiritual mentor appears in Guy’s life- Faber, an old-fashioned man, who completes the initiated by Clarisse and opens main character’s eyes, forcing to notice what is going on around them. Guy Montag now becomes a rebel, an outcast. He runs away from the city, while can’t handle this life

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