Theme Of Freedom In Fahrenheit

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The people of today don’t understand the traditional use of character and thought, can help us in ways we don’t know. The distinction that was withdrawn as the books theme had a nexus to freedom of thought. The book Fahrenheit 415 shows that people should be thinking where they can rely on themselves, learning that showing their true colors can lead to a better change in their lives instead of caring what others think and that they shouldn’t just live a careless existence with no ulterior motives for their impending future even with the ignorance they hold. One of the reasons that show freedom of thought is that Ray Bradbury describes certain events where Montag, the protagonist, shares a time …show more content…

The people have only known a life where they really needn’t to worry or bother to care for their problems, pushing it away to someone else. In the book states,” … you were so recently of them yourself. They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won’t run on. They don’t know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it’ll have to hit. They see only the blaze, the pretty fire, as you saw it” (Bradbury 99). The story forecloses the fact that people have a sense of thought where people are free to choose what they want, since the rules exclude it. The people only see the life as a small picture instead of a broader idea in which they can do things that most wouldn’t agree with in that world. The story elaborates how the people don’t really show much concern or tolerance to free thinkers when it states,” ’And most of the time in the cafes they have the joke-boxes on and the same jokes most of the time, or the musical wall lit and all the colored patterns running and down.…All abstract. That’s all there is now. My uncle says it was different once. A long tie back sometimes pictures said things or even showed people’” (Bradbury 28). That shows that once people could show their personalities without being controlled by the rules of that dystopia and then they stopped since they thought it was unnecessary. The way Clarisse said that, goes to show that during their present, people don’t show their true colors. The people don’t really think deeply into the matter since they barely know themselves, only doing what suites themselves. Bradbury is trying to show a world where those who think differently shouldn’t be allowed in this dystopia. He’s trying to make clear the fact that it’s fine to adjust