Fahrenheit 451 Theme Essay Imagine living in a world where reading books is a sin, a crime. If you had a book, you would be burned right with it. Fahrenheit 451 , written by Ray Bradbury, told us a story about a world where books actually were a crime. Not just another world but our own Earth in the future. That’s not the worst part though. The worst part about this world was that they were numb. The people did not know how to feel/have emotions. They didn’t know how to remember. This was all because of something that is starting to become a problem even nowadays. Technology. It is messing us up and it messed up the people in Fahrenheit 451. I came upon several different motifs and important ideas that were in the book. But the most important lesson, or theme in Fahrenheit 451 is that acceptive and unexamined routines make people blind to the things that truly matter. The people in the book were used to living life fast. They never took the time to stop, think, maybe also appreciate what they had round them. They were always living at full speed. For instance here Clarisse says: “‘I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly,”she said. “If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! …show more content…
They were accustomed to the sight of firemen burning houses, burning books, and even people. They became used to hearing the term firemen and thinking about people who burned, rather than our current definition of a fireman, which is to stop fires. Just like people in that society became used to the sight of seeing books burned, they also became used to a different type of family. In the book they also had different types of TV’s. The TV’s were walls that similarly served the same purpose. Montag’s wife, Millie was obsessed with her family on the TV. Montag was even concerned about her. One day Millie told