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Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

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To begin with, in the novel Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury displays numerous ways characters are saddened and not properly living their lives. For a profuse amount of time, human beings thrived for one thing: happiness. In older and modern societies, an abundant amount of people do not get back to the real world, simply stuck in an imaginary fantasy. Bradbury showcases how one cannot truly live in a reality that is not real, that individual is only surviving. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury clearly shows that the characters are only surviving without happiness where Montag battles himself constantly throughout the story. He is repeatedly debating whether to give into his curiosity or to ignore it. Though one can cause damage to his life he doesn't pass over it like it is mandatory. Furthermore, In the story, he realizes how unhappy he is with his wife, his job, and his lifestyle in general. Montag quotes, “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in awhile. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” (Bradbury 52). Whole fully, he …show more content…

In the beginning of the story she already tried to overdose but is “replaced with a new soul” when she gets her blood changed. She was clearly depressed, lonely, and deflated about how her life was. Even when the blood transfusion occurred, she never became any better, instead she was even more gray-like. As mentioned in the novel, “Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them " (Bradbury 157). Not looking in the mirror is primarily why Mildred never grew as a person and was stuck in the social norms. Moreover, She never really lived her life correctly and ended up dying an unsatisfying life that she wasn't even aware of living in the first

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