The similar fear of the state's abuse of power and technology at the expense of human individuality present within these novels speaks to the relevance of these novels within their historical context and their usefulness for awakening people to the horrendous consequences of their ignorance. Eventually all the alienated characters come before some prophesising hand of the government who is ready to rationalize the right and duty of the government to possess such control over its people. In 1984 this is during the torture of Winston for his crime of not loving Big Brother. Orwell then reveals the horrors of an advanced dystopia through O’Brien such as the death of the individual, "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind.
Guy begins to collect books throughout the novel and keep them in his air vent. There is a mechanical hound, which is a machine which enforces the rules of the society. One lady in the novel burns her own house down and dies with her books. This is an example of how people would rather die with their books than live without them. Mildred, Guy’s wife, doesn’t really care about anything, but her TV room.
In the current day and age, people rarely pick up a book before they fall asleep, and most people probably could not explain what Aldous Huxley wrote. The way of life in Bradbury’s dystopia was to employ firemen to burn intelligence and promote mass ignorance in an act to create an equilibrium of knowledge. Montag’s wife, who was hospitalized after their house was bombed, was scrutinized by robots and robot-like humans to extract every bit of knowledge (human blood) inside of Mildred and replace it with mechanically administered blood. (Bradbury 17). This act showed society’s need for ignorance and a “don’t ask questions, that’s just the way it is” type of system.
Readers know she made a major impact on him, because at the beginning of the book, he said, “It was a pleasure to burn” (3), but later said, “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing” (51). This shows how influential Clarisse was on Guy while she was still there. She also made him realize that he was not actually happy in life; he does not like his job or love his wife. He even said that he doe not think that he would cry if she dies.
Technology is becoming our main lifestyle and people are caring less and less about the world around them. Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, greatly foreshadows what our world might soon turn into which makes this novel very believable and scary. To avoid this, we must continue our research and study of new ideas and beliefs and share them with the world. People need to care more about their society and the fundamentals of living properly. Therefore we must spot the dangers in our current status and avoid this corrupt world at all
Mark Ohlms Ms. Ayers Contemporary Literature February 4, 2009 Privacy or Protection Imagine a world a world where your every action and thought is monitored and reprimanded when necessary. That is the situation that is faced by the characters in 1984, by George Orwell. Citizens of the nation are being watched by cameras in both private and public places to watch for the threat of a potential crime against other people and the government. Such a controlling supervision by the government is overdone in the novel but an intriguing idea if done correctly. Society would be a safer place if security cameras were placed in public areas to oversee peoples potentially illegal behavior.
Fahrenheit 451 part three Burning Bright Characters: * Guy Montag- a fireman that has realized the emptiness in his life and has begun searching for anything that will give him something to live for in books * Captain Beatty- captain of the fire department where Montag works; he is very well read and cunning * Mildred Montag- Guy’s wife. All she does is watch TV and invite her friends over to watch TV. She is against books and finally gives up on getting rid of Montag’s books and leaves. * Professor Faber- a retired English professor Montag met in the park. He is a coward is afraid of what people will do if he speaks about books.
In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury emphasizes a world in which books are of little importance and forbidden. Firemen like Montag, burn books without knowing the reasoning behind it. In Bradbury's novel, education's emphasis on technology leads to a culture where people understand how things are done but never bother to wonder why things are done. Such an education discourages people from developing their creative abilities, and as the narrative points out several times, those who cannot build destroy. The result is a society where fanatical, destructive behavior, such as the firemen's book-burning, flourishes.
Everyone has a breaking point; Montags just so happened to be witnessing a woman commit suicide while he was on the job. He didn’t care anymore; he simply wanted justice and balance. In life we choose what’s worth the risk, and books were well worth Montags time, so he began to believe that books were something
We need to revert back to the roots the Founding Fathers planted and minimize the role of the government and maximize the role and responsibility on the individual. We need to be accountable for the state of our economy ourselves and stop running to Washington to stick a band aid over problems while they just get worst. We have the greatest power as individuals to make the biggest