1. A successful text forces us to rethink our worldview
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1953. The book is set in a future American society where books are forbidden and the "firemen" burn any that are found. Fahrenheit 451 centralises around the protagonist who is a fireman named Guy Montag.
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living, "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed." People within this society do not ejoy nature, think independently, spend time by themselves, have conversations that mean things and most of all don't read books. Instead, they drive very fast and watch excessive amounts of television. Montag is a character that had a lot of self-conflict and lacks knowledge and believes what he hears, which is apparent early on in the text "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." This quote showing his curiosity that reoccurs throughout the text and his knowledge lack that most firemen are usually informed on.
Montag's wife Mildred is another major character that
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Our world has been brought up on the common everyday values we live by every day, steal something = prison, kill someone = prison, burn a house = firemen to put it out. But in Montag's world, reading or obtaining a single book or more will cause your house and belongings to be burnt as well as being arrested. This further making myself think what if the world was operated differently and society followed the one demonstrated in Fahrenheit 451, it would have an impact on everything we do. From learning in the classroom, ways to use spare time, jobs operating and social information (magazines)