Table Read "Fahrenheit 451"
The beginning of the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, starts with "It was a pleasure to burn", I believe Bradbury begins by saying this because finding pleasure in burning something shocking to the reader because in our society we tend to put out fires rather than starting and burning something. The main character, Montag, is a sort of firefighter but instead of stopping fires he starts them in his society which seems to be the complete opposite from ours. I think he finds more plesure in burning books than reading them because he feels powerful destoying the creation of others and riding the people of new and different ideas that are influenced by books because "odd" behavior is considered bad whereas in our society it's the normal day to day. In the first scene the books are compared to birds because birds sort of represent freedom of the mind in this case. By burning the books Montag is keeping their society ignorant and unable to realate to feelings books give, basically limiting freedom, maybe as a sort of propaganda to keep the society dumb because books have the power to influence people which would eventually lead to protests and riots of the people for change. On his way home Montag stumbles ugon a young girl named Clarisse who seems very different from him. Anywho, they start walking together and he starts to ask her a lot of questions to which he recives odd answers. What shocks Montag the most is that she isn't afraid to approach him and speak of his job like other people are. Montag is a man that lives strongly by the rules, he doesn't really speak about the unknown he just does what he needs to do and what he is told to be right. Clarisse, however, is very outspoken and curious about the world. This society considers her to be anti-social because she's different from the rest and gets lost in her thoughts.
I think the authour also starts the introduction at this point in Montag's life because his mind becomes more open to what's really going on around him & he sees himself starting to realise things and not be so blind about the world he's in. The author introduces Clarisse before Mildred maybe so that Montag could get a new perspective about things he hasn't noticed in life & so that his mind starts racing with questions once he finds his wife half dead.
Speaking of Mildred, she had required emergency service because she had overdosed on 30 sleeping pills. The emergency service that she was given came from two machines whose jobs were to clean her stomach of any remaining pills. Montag's relationship with his wife Mildred seems to be so lonely and not really close considering they have separated beds and Montag is always working and Mildred is always lost in her headphones.
All the houses are fireproof in this society for safety, obviously, because of accidents that would frequently happen in the past which in our perspective is our present, & this society is set in the future so they made houses fireproof.
In this society, TV is responsible for replacing literature, intellectualism, and curiosity. On top of that, it becomes the substitute for any kind of human conversation. People seem to be happier when they don't have to think as the story goes, & technology ishthe governments way of oppression. Compared to our society, technology is merely used for entertainment and innovating purposes, & not to tie us down as a society, but it slowly seems to be doing just that. In the first few pages of the book technology doesn't seem to help the lives of Montag and Mildred, it actually seems to drift them apart from each other and reality.
The mechanical hound is a dog-shaped metal robot whose job is to hunt down and kill any fugitives who have violated the laws of society.
The old woman lights a match when her house is raided because she'd rather die as a human being & with her books than become controlled and brainwashed like everyone else in society.
I think the authour also starts the introduction at this point in Montag's life because his mind becomes more open to what's really going on around him & he sees himself starting to realise things and not be so blind about the world he's in. The author introduces Clarisse before Mildred maybe so that Montag could get a new perspective about things he hasn't noticed in life & so that his mind starts racing with questions once he finds his wife half dead.
Speaking of Mildred, she had required emergency service because she had overdosed on 30 sleeping pills. The emergency service that she was given came from two machines whose jobs were to clean her stomach of any remaining pills. Montag's relationship with his wife Mildred seems to be so lonely and not really close considering they have separated beds and Montag is always working and Mildred is always lost in her headphones.
All the houses are fireproof in this society for safety, obviously, because of accidents that would frequently happen in the past which in our perspective is our present, & this society is set in the future so they made houses fireproof.
In this society, TV is responsible for replacing literature, intellectualism, and curiosity. On top of that, it becomes the substitute for any kind of human conversation. People seem to be happier when they don't have to think as the story goes, & technology ishthe governments way of oppression. Compared to our society, technology is merely used for entertainment and innovating purposes, & not to tie us down as a society, but it slowly seems to be doing just that. In the first few pages of the book technology doesn't seem to help the lives of Montag and Mildred, it actually seems to drift them apart from each other and reality.
The mechanical hound is a dog-shaped metal robot whose job is to hunt down and kill any fugitives who have violated the laws of society.
The old woman lights a match when her house is raided because she'd rather die as a human being & with her books than become controlled and brainwashed like everyone else in society.
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