In this society people get very disturbed when the law is broken. When Mrs. Phelps starts sobbing after Montag reads the poem Mrs. Bowles starts yelling at Montag. Mrs. Bowles says, “I knew it would happen! I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness, all mush!”(101). Mrs. Bowles is furious at Montag for reading a poem and making Mrs. Phelps cry.
He has become savage, seeking out the woods as a place to cause havoc, venting his “anguish in fearful howlings…like a wild beast,” destroying everything in his pathway with “a stag like swiftness,” as if, destruction was second nature to him. The passage shifts in tone from voracious and wild to cynical and mocking. The creature has become a cynic to everything around him, believing that the metaphorical cold stars are shining just to mock him; trees wave just to patronize him, as well as, the “sweet voice [‘s]” of bird’s, whom breaks the silence and peace that has been wanted. The tone then shifts back to voracious and wild, as the creature restates his love for destruction. This repetition of destruction shows that the creature is no longer of sound mind.
When he is trying to understand something spiritual, he is bombarded by technology and advertisements until he cannot think straight. Montag tries to will himself to understand, yelling “‘Shut up, shut up, shut up!’...Consider the lilies of the field.” Ultimately he cannot understand or remember that passage in the bible until later in the book. After separating himself from society, immersing himself in water and emerging with a deeper understanding of his world, he sees his city fall. In an instant, all technology, buildings, government and structures set in place collapse and he has the clearest moment of clarity in the book, when while “gasping and crying” he says “I remember, I remember...What is it? Yes.
Throughout the entire novel, Watson makes a very clear distinction between the events that happened in the kitchen and the events that happened in the basement. Watson uses the two contrasting rooms in the house to relate back to the theme that Montana 1948 is indeed a coming of age novel. Every single event, whether David was present in the kitchen or not, was all very childish. Nothing major ever gets accomplished in the kitchen. The kitchen represents a place where all the problems can be avoided for the moment.
In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the story revolves around the clash between ignorance and knowledge. Ray presents the question of what makes true happiness. The only two options he provides before us are either complete ignorance or knowledge and learning. Guy Montag, the protagonist of the story, believes that knowledge is the key for happiness and fights against all of society for what he believes is. Guy Montag is a fireman in a futuristic United States of America, who instead of taking out fires for a living, ignites fires upon books.
We see a world were technology is supreme and greater knowledge has diminished society. Science has attempted to make living easier though has it actually benefited humanity? Ridley Scott has predicted a world in 2019 based on the incredibly fast advancements in technology based when he created the movie. It depicts his and others from the times fear that use of knowledge would ultimately farm humanity. In blade runner the current world has transformed so far past comfortable that some are moving to alternate planets.
And all, all, in the sight of his | |worst enemy! He has been conscious of me. He has felt an influence dwelling always upon him like a curse. He knew, by some| |spiritual sense,—for the Creator never made another being so sensitive as this,—he knew that no friendly hand was pulling | |at his heart-strings, and that an eye was looking
Robert Grainier is powerless against it. Once he stops changing nature is when it transcends and calms Grainier. For civilization to progress, we distinguish ourselves from the natural world by manipulating our environment through technology. Grainier worked as a day laborer on the Eleven-Mile Cut-off Bridge that went above the Moyea River, through an adjacent pass in the gorge so to have “The Spokane International's having to look after that eleven-mile stretch of rails and ties.” (12) Twentieth century America is taking shape. Train gangs, of which Grainier belongs to, are building the nation’s infrastructure and, nature is no longer something that is hostile to man.
VICTOR'S CURSE FOR OVERSTEPPING MORAL BOUNDS IN CREATING THE MONSTER. 'HIS BODY DREADFULLY EMACIATED BY FATIGUE AND SUFFERING' - '' i NEVER SAW A MAN IN SO WRETCHED A CONDITION'. 'MELANCHOLY''DESPAIRING''GNASHES HIS TEETH'- ALUSION TO BIBLE PROPHECY. P12 P14 'CONSTANT AND DEEP GRIEF' 'HIS MIND IS SO CULTIVATED'.P14 was in a 'dark tyranny of despair'. VICTOR'S THOUGHTS OF THE MONSTER RELAYED TO WALTON AFTER ALL HE'D BEEN
Creating this life had become his sole obsession and gave purpose to his very existence. Victor even recalls, “I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit”(4:33). Upon creating the monster, Victor abandons his creature out of fear, horror, and disgust of the being he created. The creature is brought to life by Victor on a gloomy November night. The first description given of him as a living creature is: “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath, his hair of a lustrous