Fictional Hand Approach To Fahrenheit 451

1. Fictional Hand Approach Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that focuses on the evils that damage social relationships and communication. The book warns about the danger of enforcing conformity; especially in the case of Clarisse McClellan,whose death symbolized the intolerance of a desensitized and materialistic society towards those who do not comply with it. Clarisse mentioned that her peers and teachers felt she was “antisocial”(26) and how she was “afraid of children my own age”(27) since they “kill each other.”(27) The book also demonstrates the damage censorship can do to a society, mainly when it deprives citizens from the information that needs to be known. Censorship causes the citizens to not prioritize current events and keeps any

But, it also demonstrates how knowledge can be the solution to the same problems troubling him. Montag is guilty of ignorance to his actions, as he incinerated books without ever hesitating to wonder the purpose of doing so; he just knew that that was the work planned for him to do. In the beginning Montag describes the feeling he gets from destroying the novels as “a pleasure to burn”(1) and how he only became a fireman because his father and grandfather had been one, not because he chose to himself. Later on in the text, Montag is confronted with knowledge; the desire to learn the significance of the books he has been burning for years and to understand the view of the librarians who store them. Montag is finally willing to break out of his blissful ignorance in the aftermath of watching a woman burn down her home with herself trapped inside rather than simply give the books(37). He actually begins to question the impact books have since “there must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.”(48) Fahrenheit 451 presents the endless battle between knowledge and ignorance, which are both key topics in social relationships and