Predictions For Fahrenheit 451

Books reflect the writer’s thoughts and experience that the new age can never provide. In Fahrenheit 451 by by Ray Bradbury, Montag, fireman who realizes his authentic self in the utopia he lives, changed his vision of the society and the view of human nature as he noticed the“Brain” of the entire community stopped thinking. Bradbury provides several warnings that predict if people still can’t determine who they truly are, the future will turned to a collapsed hell.

The first warning is that the people are brainwashed by the oppressive government. Initially, Montag thought burning books is a pleasure, he loves the sounds from the charred books. When he burns them down, he never think of the reason. But once he sees a women of the library wants

This factor is relative to other two factors. People aren’t able to generate their own ideas based on the totalitarian government and the dysfunctional system. With the long time gripe and coercion, they become slavishly submissive, which caused them lost the sense of self. In the dystopia of Fahrenheit 451, citizens are the government’s chessmen. People have no use unless they get the government things they wanted. Also, in order to keep brainwashing, they have to please the people: “Montag, don’t move! Said a voice from the sky. The camera fell upon the victim, even as did the Hound….. The victim was seized by Hound and camera in a great spidering, clenching grip. He screamed” (Bradbury 151). The government considered Montag as a bane of the civilization, but they were not able to find him, in order to appease the citizens, they killed a innocent man as the scapegoat for Montag. People can’t recognize which is fake and which is real, because they couldn’t determine the identity. The government says that all the people are equal, right, all of them have no identity, all of them must do the same thing, and all of them must obey to the gov’t. With bunch of identityless people, they can do whatever they want, even sacrifice some of them. But with those men who realized authentic self, like Granger and Faber, they knew that they have mission to do, they will find any way to survive until they complete them. Without identity, people’s life won’t be