Society In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 Essay
The society in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury may be different than how we are in real life, but how they act could still be related to how we act. Many traits that are in that society can be found in our world, in real life. Many people are depicted as happy and many people are depicted as unhappy. This same society relates to how we were back in 2016.
Montag was happy at the beginning of the book because he enjoyed what he was doing. He burned books and kept people from reading them. He was following the rules and he liked when things burned. “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1). Montag enjoyed burning books because

Montage became friends early in the book and developed a close relationship with each other. “’Because I like you.’ Clarisse said. ‘and I don’t want anything from you. And because we know each other’” (26). She feels close with Montag and feels like they’ve known each other for a long time. Clarisse was happy at this point of time all because of Montag.
Mildred was depicted as happy at the beginning of the book, but was then later shown as very unhappy. She decided to take the whole bottle of pills when she wasn’t supposed to, showing that she doesn’t like the world she’s living in. “The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare” (11). She took all of the pills because the society for her was not right and she didn’t like it. She became very unhappy from now on until the

He might be old, but he is still afraid of some things out in their world. “The front door opened slowly. Faber peered out, looking very old in the light and very fragile and very much afraid” (76). “I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself” (78). He’s very afraid of the world he lives in. He afraid to open his own door, and afraid to speak up. He was like this for the entire book.
America can suffer some of the same symptoms that infect the F451 society. In the F451 society, many people are unhappy until someone or something comes into their life. “The girl’s face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact” (8). As soon as Montag met Clarisse, he couldn’t forget about the first time they met. The same goes for people in 2016. If someone is sad and has no friends, and if someone becomes friends with them, they change and become happy because they have friends and people to talk