Dangers In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Would anyone want to live a life with a very controlled society? Where the society is not allowed to read books and is punished for doing so. Where the books are burned at 451 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the temperature at which paper burns. Ray Bradbury makes a wider point about the dangers that a divided society can present. It is clear from the novel that books are seen to be the source of all unhappiness and should be prohibited. Clarisse McClellan, a 17 year old girl who is curious about what the world was like before her time, which disagrees with the government's actions. The book's hero, Guy Montag, is a fireman, it is Montag’s job, not to put out fires, as is the case of today's firemen but instead to create fires in order to dispose of all …show more content…

Later she is killed by a speeding car. Her death represents the intolerance of an overbearing, dehumanized society for those who do not obey.Montag had lots of things going on his mind how his wife was an addict to Television and radio. How her habit of taking sleeping pills was becoming a problem. She just sat at home watch T.V, like she was all surrounded by technology and wanted more. And then she attempted suicide by overdosing sleeping pills. Mostly of all how his wife was just running always from his heart. Montag was unhappy, it was more like he wanted to find a reason to his unhappiness. One day Montag and the other firemen burn a woman alive in her own home, because she refuses to abandon her books. At this fire, Montag secretly takes a book home. So, Montag started to read the books he stole. Though he was forbidden, to read the books. This was the point when Montag realized that reading was really touching. He started thinking that his wife was just wasting her time watching television because she was limited to think about what was on television. Then he thought books were better because you can sit and image your own thoughts while