The Importance of Freedom: An Analysis of Fahrenheit 451’s Setting Imagine a world where there are little freedoms. a society where all people do is work, eat, sleep, and mindlessly watch television. For us and our future, this is a real and terrifying possibility. In 1953, the author Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 based on his predictions for the future as a result of world events that have occurred during his lifetime. Bradbury depicts a society in which books are illegal and where people live with this unsettling reality of limited freedom. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury demonstrates how society will collapse if people give up their freedoms. One of the ways Fahrenheit 451 shows that society will collapse if people give up their freedoms is through violence. When Montag goes to burn books the woman who owned the books wanted to die with them. The other firefighters did not care about her dying but instead cared about the books burning instead. Another example of this is when Montag was running across a road and a car, presumedly with teenagers driving, intentionally tried to hit him. That shows they had no regard for human life and thought it would be fun to hit him. …show more content…
Throughout the book Mildred is frequently in the house’s parlor with the “family”. The family is three wall TVs that play three to five minute “shows”. This keeps people from thinking and processing what goes on which gives people little creativeness and thoughtfulness. Another piece of technology is the hound, the hound is a robotic dog that can very easily track somebody and find them. This makes it easy to find criminals which gets broadcasted on tv to give people the feeling of safety. This shows that if this continues people will probably have no differences, no different likes and dislikes, no arguments, nothing that makes a person that makes them