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The Lego Movie And Fahrenheit 451 Comparison

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Alienation is an experience of being isolated from a group or a society. It is something that affects people everyday at school, work or any social events. The theme of alienation is showed in The Lego Movie when the character tries very hard to meet society’s standards. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 alienation is showed when no one listens or pays attention to the protagonist. The Lego Movie and Fahrenheit 451 does a good job demonstrating the theme of alienation with the usage of character emotions, feelings and society’s standards and labels throughout the movie and the novel. In the movie, The Lego Movie by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the theme of alienation is developed throughout the movie by Emmet Brickowski’s feelings and point of view …show more content…

Montag is the protagonist that lives in the futuristic world, and is a firefighter that burns down books. He later begins to question his society and his life after his interaction with a 17 year old girl named Clarisse, who later dies and ends up leaving Montag. Montag’s wife, Mildred, who is very shallow and completely immersed in an electronic world and grows further away with Montag with every electronic gadget in her house, distracts her from her real feelings and leads her to an attempted suicide from a drug overdose. She never has full on conversations with her husband or shows him affection and attention. She never listens to what he has to say and is always distracted by talking to the walls, which are talking tv’s. This later has a very massive effect on Montag. His feelings and thoughts towards that is made known when he says “Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because their yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife, she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what i have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense…” (Bradbury 82). This quote by Montag shows the reader that he is feeling alienated since no one is listening to him. This illustrates the theme of alienation because he has no one to talk to and express his feelings to. He just wants someone that will listen

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Fahrenheit 451-1966 full movie version- Julie Christie The book is definitely unlike the movie. In the movie, the man gets a phone call from a lady telling him to get out of the house. The lady caller cries, “Get out quickly, you’ve got to get out of there!”

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In the futuristic book Fahrenheit 451 reality is turned upside down when heroes become villains. The world is blind to the evils that lay inside the government. The people who aren't are educated are hunted, and seen as insane. Morals will be put to the test, and although this book focuses on one man's journey through it all, it is very clear that the issues this fictional society faces could not be to far from issues what could happen in real life. Fahrenheit 451 is a direct representation of the theme man vs society and his journey to wake up the sleeping civilians of the United states.

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Fahrenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury 1953. This book was written to highlight the dangers of control and technology. 45 years later, The Truman show, directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol in 1998, was released and highlighted the same issues and more. The environment in both are to be interpreted as the future if we don’t head these warnings. Montag and Truman are similar in their ways of thinking and rejecting their constructed “happiness.”

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The society that Montag lives in is corrupted by technology, it impacts their cognitive and mental state. Mildred, his wife, is ignorant about situations and supresses reality she overdoses on sleeping pills, and does not come to realize it. Everyday she watches television and pretends she is in a play, refuses to spent time with Montag she rather watch tv and all she talks about is having another tv set up in their home. She refuses to have a baby because they bore her, and calls the tv her family. Mildred claims she is proud of her life although she’s lonely in her empty house when Montag is at work, she’s surrounded by her own thoughts.

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In conclusion, throughout the entire novel, Montag continuously changes. He goes from loving his job, to rethink his job. In the end, he realizes that his job not only hurts him, but it hurts other people. He refuses to burn houses for the rest of the novel. He finally realizes that it is not good to burn other humans and their houses and

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Montag is extremely curious about books, and the idea of freedom that it drives him crazy. He becomes so crazy that he lies to his wife, and kills his boss. Montag will go to any extent to gain freedom, in the means of breaking laws, and hurting

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Her brain does not even think anymore; sometimes she looks at the television walls and not even be listening to what is going on. She spends all day with her ‘family’ in the walls and cannot even spend a little time with her husband (Bradbury 46). When Mildred’s friends come to join her and watch the walls, Montag tries to have a conversation with them and ends up getting angry. Montag is angry because Mildred and her friend’s thoughts and conversations have no depth. They say they are voting for President Noble because he is more attractive than his opponent and they talk about their children as if they do not matter to them (Bradbury 93).

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In the story, the government has created a utopian society where anything controversial has been suppressed from the people. Things such as books and universities have been banned and replaced with advanced technology. Montag 's wife, Mildred, is so absorbed in this new technology that she doesn’t see what is happening in the reality

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Humans are and will always be social creatures, they like to stay in groups, chat with others, and socialize with other humans and some might even say that it is necessary for survival. So knowing this, the greatest dilemma one could face would be the separation and social outcasting of themselves from the group. Isolation can be very impactful and dangerous for one’s self, for a glimpse of its consequences authors write tales of separation and isolation which the reader can soak in and understand its potential. Crace Chua and F. Scott Fitzgerald are two examples of authors who shared stories of social dissolution in The Great Gatsby and “(love song, with two goldfish)”. This theme of isolation and separation affect many aspects of a story but the characters and various conflicts are truely altered and somehow brought to life when real human nature is tested and denied.

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Alienation is the process of feeling lonely due to someone 's lack of experience that separates them from society. As a result, characters in The Dubliners collection by James Joyce, such as “Araby” and “The Dead”, suffer from alienation. Joyce explores the feeling of being the “other” through its main character Araby from “Araby” and Gabriel Conroy from “The Dead”. Araby and Conroy are both very different from being young or old,uneducated or educated, and poor or wealthy. These characters show us in their story’s how doesn 't matter which lifestyle choice one makes because no matter what no one can escape from that one moment in your life where one feels as if they do not

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, in attempts to normalize the fear of books to Montag and make him view books with the same negativity as every other brainwashed citizen. While already feeling stranded by the majority, the protagonist feels the same isolation at home from his wife, Mildred Montag. Adhering to the technology-craving community, Mildred spends a large portion of her time interacting with the parlor walls or listening to her “seashells”, which are typically clamped tight to her ears, blocking out any external noise. Because of this, Montag cannot spend quality time or even hold a decent conversation with his wife, ruining their relationship and creating an emotional barrier between the two. When Montag is talking with Mildred and her friends, he realizes that her friends have fallen under an illusion of happiness the government has taught them.

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Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. It is considered to be dystopian fiction which is used to display different social structures throughout the book. Published in 1953, this story takes place in a futuristic city in the United States of America. Books are illegal to own and anyone in possession of them will have to get them burnt. That is the job a the firefighters.

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Montag realizes that not everyone is willing to see the faults in their society. Trying to change that is futile. The reader, in turn, recognizes that many people are afraid of knowing more. They are afraid of seeing the wrong in what was perceived as perfect, as good, as

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When Montag starts to question his society, he begins to take action in order to change the continuous cycle of destruction this dystopian society faces. Montag’s wife, Mildred has been sucked into the addiction of technology along with the rest of this society. Due to over-stimulation from the wall TV’s and other technology surrounding them, they are not able to sleep. To sleep, they continually use and abuse pills, because they are so distracted by the technology around them, they forget how many they take and do not stop until they overdose. As well as over-stimulation, the people in this society also use prescription pills as an escape mechanism from the bleak and fast paced society in which they live.

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“Gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face” (Bradbury 132). The people in Fahrenheit 451 are exactly as the protagonist, Montag, describes them: gray, animal, dehumanized and lifeless. Ray Bradbury has built a society in which people spend their days mindlessly watching television. Violence, bullying and murder are common, especially coming from school children, who spend their school days watching even more television. Montag is a fireman who burns books and slowly comes to understand the dehumanized and meaningless state that his society is in.

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