Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Dystopia We all want the future to be superlative but sometimes too many advances can have a detrimental effect on society. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the society has put a lot of emphasis on technology, making relationships trivial. The government has put a ban on books because books tend to make people feel uncomfortable. The society has designated the firemen as the book burners of the society. When a young teenager expresses her thoughts to a fireman named Guy Montag, the ways of the firemen is put into question. This causes Montag to try and find himself by illegally taking books and then fleeing their society. The culture, characters, and themes help to establish a true picture of a dystopian society. The culture of the Fahrenheit

Their advancements in technology play a predominant role in their everyday life. For example, they have a toaster that ejects spider like extremities that butter and delivers the bread to the person: “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delivered to her plate” (Bradbury 16). Their televisions are interactive and cover an entire wall, giving them the name parlor walls. Just like us today they desire to have a television in every single room. The reasoning behind their acute dependency on technology stems from the government banning any form of literary work. Books give people the ability to use their imaginations and when that is taken away it is similar to losing a part of your personality. Having an unintellectual personality can make it harder to make real connections with others. Due to the dystopian society in Fahrenheit 451, human relationships are meaningless. Even mothers believe that having children is dreadful: ‘“No one in his right mind, the Good Lord knows, would have children!’ said Mrs.

There are a few characters who believe opposite of this declaration, one of the characters being Clarisse McClellan. In the dystopian society that is Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse is considered an outcast. Clarisse has an outlook on the world like no one else: “I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sunrise” (Bradbury 5). Clarisse is unlike anyone else in the fact that she notices details that everybody else disregards about the world around them. The belief that Clarisse is the outcast proves that the person we would consider normal is a miscreant in the Fahrenheit 451 society. Clarisse is significant because, in the main character Guy Montags’ eyes, she is seen as mature for her young age. In other words, Clarisse is wiser than anyone Guy has ever met and that is ironic because Guy is significantly older than Clarisse. Guy Montag was on the opposite side of the spectrum when he first met Clarisse; he was a numb firefighter that followed all of the societies regulations. After his exchanges with Clarisse, Montag’s eyes were opened and he realized that his robot-like ways might not be rational. One day on the job Montag’s new clarity brought about new behavior: “Montag’s hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest” (Bradbury 34). Montag