Most people have a basic understanding of obedience; however, many may fail to see the application and the impact of it in their own lives and in our society. Submission into conformity discourages the type of independence that is valued in our supposedly free-thinking world. Censorship is one of the major themes in Fahrenheit 451, and its impact is illustrated through submission in appearance, behavior and thought. This invites us to draw clear relationships between Ray Bradbury‘s novel and our current society. The association between appearance and social acceptance is already apparent in our lives.
Some people challenge societies’ beliefs but those are few. It is in human nature to follow the rules of a society and satisfy the need to belong to a community. When one breaks those laws becomes an outcast and is rejected by society. Living alone is difficult therefore, most people tent to obey or compromise ideas of others. However, people who do stand up and defend their belief system create new movement, which eventually brings changes for the better.
Sociologists say that childhood socially constructed (which means that it is created and defined by society). They say that the position children have in society is not permanently fixed, it changes over time. This is obvious by looking at how childhood is seen in other cultures and the past. It is accepted in our society now that childhood should be a special time of life, children are seen as being different from adults so should be treated differently because they are physically and psychologically immature and are not able to be dependent. So they are seen to need a lengthy period of time where they are nurtured and socialised before they are seen as responsible adults in society.
Huck is closest related to Montag because of the way that they want to break away from society and learn things on their own. Captain Beatty is like Miss Watson because they are both a hypocritical part of these two novels. There are other like character but the similarities are minor and thus might just be coincidental. But the aforementioned characters also stand as symbols for ideas. Huck and Montag stand for freedom and self-reliance because they search for what is right within themselves and not what the rest do.
They were not inventing anything new but reclaiming something ancient. This is why governments tend to fall apart, because people often want to come together freely and be themselves, rather then fit a mold that is presented for them. Hobbes foretold that it was a human condition that war fought by each against each, making it hard for anything good to come out of it, or learn
It is believe that children need a long period of time of nurturing and socialisation before they are ready to enter the adult world, so they would need the appropriate amount of time to acquire knowledge and experience to enable the child to become an effective member of society. Sociologist Jane Pilcher, says that ‘the most important feature of the modern idea of childhood is separateness.’ so this would mean that childhood is a distinctly different status in comparison to adulthood. There are many ways that the separateness between the two statuses are enforced, such as; child labour laws, age laws on alcohol and cigarettes, compulsory education, censorship etc. Childhood is seen as a social construct, this means that childhood is crated and defined by the society in which it is surrounded by, it is not natural or universal. Our view of the role of children can vary depending on various things.
In the vigilantism cases, although we could all relate to the frustration involved for the actors, we all agree that one must stay within the bounds of the law to seek out justice. The next discussion involved civil disobedience and we found that we agreed that civil disobedience has been helpful historically to help change the laws and improve our society. However, the general consensus on civil disobedience was also that the acts of disobedience must be done in a peaceful manner for the acts to be effective. The final acts of crimes among professionals had another anonymous decision. Our team found that we did not agree with those professionals who chose to commit crimes.
All the characters are from the same environment but they are all different in their own unique way, some think that it is ok to stay “D and D” and others think that, that is wrong and everyone should use their voice. People can also see that the longshoremen stand by the corrupt people such as Johnny Friendly and his goons just so they can continue to have work and do not get killed. The environment in which the individual lives in can have a significant impact on our values and beliefs; in the film Terry changes when his morals are impacted when meeting Edie.
With faster times we forget to help those around us, and as a society I feel the need to pressure those who have more than enough money for themselves, the reason is that we need to be able to gain support from those who are able to fund these ideas in order to fulfill our morals as a proper society we need to be able to function. And in order to function we need to be able to fix the problems that we have with no difficulty like we have now. There needs to be a change in our society that destroys the stigma that comes with homelessness because it a ever changing problem that should be fixed. By fixing the problem as a community we can grow as one and we can plan the first step into forever fixing the homelessness problem. As individuals in society we need to fight and change our state of mind to what we know as “homeless.” Because there is more to being homeless than just living on the streets.
In the novel, Holden also face many challenges and paid consequences for his action. The main point of this metaphor is that every people have to follow their own rules for their lives in order to become a successful person. People have to follow the rules because it help them not regret to their actions they’ve done in life. Once you disobey to follow the rules it could lead you to a more unnecessary future and regret it the rest of your