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.
But usually he does not think for one moment that he could be doing something more valuable with his life. The public mentality is to keep our heads down, eyes beamed into a device, living day to day in this modern world. It is funny, really, to think about how shockingly similar our current society is to the outrageously ignorant society of Fahrenheit 451. Of these many parallels “The most startling similarity between Fahrenheit 451 and today’s society is the disparagement of reading and independent thinking” (Ivy 1). 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.
It is not a film for people who are not willing to pay attention or people who only like action films. With that said, the movie is about a futuristic society where all books are banned and burnt. The fire men in this future believe that people who read books have thoughts and are able to think for themselves are a threat to this society where ideas and thoughts of your own are strongly discouraged. The people living in this society all seem to be controlled
“Crooks had reduced himself to nothing” (89). As Candy and Lennie leave Crooks’ room he tells them to forget about him going with them, he wouldn’t want to go to a place like that. He gained hope for less than an hour and lost it as soon as one woman “put him in his place.” All the other men up until that point continued to hope that one day things could get better, Crooks did not, and this isolates him. He tells Lennie “Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just all in their heads
Ray Bradbury talks about Fahrenheit not so much being about censorship but about being a society that didn’t read. People in the story are not intrested in reading because they think books are the cause of depression and how books carry on myths and legends. Also how technology has replaced books and that it has also affected relationships. To begin with people are siimple and unquestiong. They depend upon technology so much they think is a waste of time to open up a book.
You can’t pray a lie-I found that out” (Twain 227). Huck is trying to follow what society views as normal. Although he attempts to pray for it, he knows he cannot because it is not what is right. The reason Huck is unable to pray what he wanted is because, in his heart, he knows it is wrong. He knows that he should not turn in Jim because Jim has done nothing but help Huck in his adventure and has done nothing wrong to Huck.
Something like this wasn’t necessary for him to do. Another quote, ”It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant an or thought.” This shows that Chris did not want anyone to worry about him or bother looking for him. This was a selfish decision for him to make. No matter how bad things might end up, he still didn’t seem to want anyone to worry about him. Chris decided to drift away from everybody.
She would later meet her husband at the well. Boorstin makes this stark contrast with his example of “Rebecca at the TV set”. In this example Rebecca fails to gossip with the other women, nor does she meet her husband because she is at her television set. Boorstin makes the clear distinction how society is worse with a prevalence of
I think so, anyway” (pg. 121). This is tragic because Simon is shunned for this, for trying to keep Ralph’s morale up, since Ralph is the chief. Simon is the only character who acts out of the goodness of his heart. This is tragic because none of the other boys has this.
Postman (1985) also discussed the idea that the television becomes most trivial and, therefore, dangerous when trying to present important cultural conversation topics such as: politics, religion, news, and education (Postman, 1985). This fear is in direct relation to the way the Digital Revolution has allowed the media to do more than what it was initially intended to do. In regards to this, Postman (1985) writes, “It is a world without much coherence or sense; a world that does not ask us, indeed, does not permit us to do anything; a world that is, like a child’s game of peek-a-boo, entirely self-contained. But like peek-a-boo, it is also endlessly entertaining.” (p. 77). As you can see through this peek-a-boo analogy Postman (1985) illustrates the fact that televisions image-based inability to provide thoughtful ideas needed for a media literate society.