Morality In Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

Defying What Is Right To Do What Is Necessary

Someone who follows all the rules and takes the path of the average citizen must be more intelligent and well rounded as a person than someone who doesn’t, right? Well in the case of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy Montag realizes the importance of books in a society in which they have been outlawed but the government. Individuals who continuously follow the path of their own society do not always have a higher morals than the people that choose to defy common practice based on what they believe is correct.
In fahrenheit 451, Montag is often trying to figure out whether or not he is doing the right thing by reading and saving books. When Montag and the firemen respond to

He acknowledges the fact that their lives are meaningless. One night as Montage is walking clarisse, a girl he met, home, she asks him if he’s happy and Montag thinks to himself, “Happy! Of all the nonsense. He stopped laughing. He put his hand into the glove hole of his front door and let it know his touch. The front door slide open. Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m Not?”(Bradbury 8). When Montag comprehends the fact that he is not happy in his normal life, he begins to wonder why. At this point, Montag had no answer for himself, but in time, he would begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel in the form of books. Another time that Montag is affected by how unimportant his and his society’s lives are is when “Mrs. Phelps started crying. The others in the middle of the desert watched her crying grow very loud and her face squeeze itself out of shape”(Bradbury 97). This moment shows Montag how insignificant the life of this woman is after she hers a poem about love. She is so ashamed of herself that she cannot help but to cry. Some may claim that the lives of the citizens do have meaning to them, but this isn’t as true as they may think. They people of Montag’s city do little to no good for others and mainly care about themselves, which is all the they’re focused on at any given moment.This evidence is a theoretical push

There are many times throughout the story that the reader gets a clear image of Montage being subjected to the cave. At the end of the book Montag is thinking to himself about how “he felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the séance and all the murmuring ghosts”(Bradbury 133). As Montag thinks this to himself, there is a strong connection to the allegory when the prisoner escapes the cave and sees what is truly real. Montag feels a reassuring sensation at the end of the story when he escapes the police. One other time that montag is a victim in representing the allegory is when he is talking to Faber, an old man who also likes books, and Faber says “but time to think? If you’re not driving at a hundred miles per hour, at a clip where you can’t think of anything else but danger, then you're playing some game”(Bradbury 80). What Faber is describing is how blind some people are to what is really happening out in the world. He describes how people go day to day not realizing what they are not seeing, witch in reality, is a lot more clear than they ever may have thought. Some may think that these are just coincidences but they simply cannot be. This is because of the fact that the Allegory is mentioned several times throughout the book These reasons display Montag’s relation to Plato’s allegory of the cave throughout the