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The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows us a future in which people spend all day in front of a television that tells them absolutely nothing useful or helpful. People fill their mind with such nothingness as that, and they do not have real-time or reason to think. The people of the future block out thoughts with their constant time in front of noise and confusion. In the book, Bradbury implies that without thought, people are just unhappy and find no reason for their life. If you live a lie and are happy, the truth is, you aren’t really happy at all. It is better to know the truth and know in your soul that what you are live for and what is the thing you really wanted to do. Montag compares himself to the Hound. He thought “‘That’s …show more content…

When Mildred became depressed, she took pill after pill, perhaps trying to commit suicide. When she isn’t overdosing on pills, she is always listening to her seashells, watching the family or driving one-hundred miles per hour down a road. Once in awhile, she may invite some other ladies to come over and watch the family with her, but that is about it. She became so absorbed with the technology that she refuses to turn the family off when Montag is trying to talk to her and she falls asleep listening to her seashells. These create the illusion of a virtual world. “‘Yes, and it might be a good idea. Before I hurt someone. Did you hear Beatty? Did you listen to him? He knows all the answers. He’s right. Happiness is important. Fun is everything. And yet I kept sitting there saying to myself, I’m not happy, I’m not happy’”(62). to become so soaked into something that you become addicted to it when it may not be the best thing for you. Just because something is fun does not necessarily mean that it is good. Everyone makes mistakes, however. Bradbury realized this but he also seems to believe that a person is capable of changing. The way Mildred does not remember trying to kill herself shows that people in her society do not pay attention to what is happening to the world, or even to their real

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He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back." (Bradbury) Emphasis on how Montag feels certain ways

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“It was a pleasure to burn”(Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 1).Guy Montag explained his whole life in 6 words on what he liked and changes in the book,”Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. An obedient fireman who had a perfect life life then made friends who changed his life into finding the meaning of life. Montag,a man who adored his job,lived his normal life with a job and wife. In the book,”Fahrenheit 451”,Montag says,”It was a special pleasure to see things eaten,to see things blackened and changed”(Bradbury 1).This determine that Montag enjoyed to watch houses and books burn down to the ground but collected the knowledge from the burnt book before meeting Clarisse. Clarisse Mcclellan,a seventeen years old girl who is crazy,changes all believes

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The author states, “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (Bradbury, 9). The quote transfers readers into the mind of Montag, and if he is going to take action to fix his happiness. He realizes that talking to Clarisse sparked a little bit of joy in his heart that he had not felt for years. After Clarisse departed, Montag is left with the notion that he is not happy and may need to change his life for the better before it is too late. The peculiarity of Clarisse’s mind changes Montag’s awareness of the world as well as the way he receives happiness in his own

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Faced with the realization that he carries a false image of happiness, Montag falls into a confused state of mind. Suddenly, his understanding of a basic necessity of human life is blown

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At night, she is in the parlor room watching her show play. All Mildred seems to know is how to get the basic needs in life, such as food, but everything else revolves around the technology in her home. Mildred also does not seem to be in the right state of mind. Montag comes home from work one day and he found her passed out on the bed. Her pill bottle is empty in the corner, and it seems as though she is dead.

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Montag finds that “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl ran off across the lawn with the mask”(9). Montag discovers that even though he thought he was happy, he really wasn’t. He might of believed that his happiness was true, but this belief was shattered when he realized that the world that he lived in was deeper than

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Ray Bradbury’s novel ‘Fahrenheit 451’ warns of the dangers of technology and blind obedience through the character of Mildred Montag amongst others. Although Mildred is a minor character throughout the text, her image as the poster girl of the dystopian vision of the future Bradbury had created highlights that in a society where technology is all-powerful and all-consuming, true happiness is seldom found. Bradbury depicts characters who have an awareness of life outside of technology to be genuinely happier and more sincere, whereas those who have conformed to mores of society are consequently dissatisfied with life. Ultimately, it is Montag’s realisation that there is more to life than shallow conversations and parlour walls, and the happiness

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In a society where mindless activity suppresses people’s activity of the brain, nothing significant or influential will result in life. The people are not knowledgeable to understand the circumstances they live in. The most damaging effect begins when life becomes insufficient without meaning. Due to the constant enjoyment, life ends up trivial and full of displeasure. Similarly, in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the society in which books are subjected to be destroyed emphasizes the effects of the control of human thought.

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One of the main themes in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is Distraction vs. Happiness. This theme explains how characters in the novel prefer to distract themselves from reality to avoid suffering and “be happy”. They thought that driving fast, watching TV or hearing the radio all day will help suppress your sadness and living a better life. In the novel, they show the only real way to find happiness is to live real life and not avoid the suffering. Instead of avoiding suffering, you should accept your reality and try to move on with it.

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