Fahrenheit 451, the burning
temperature of paper. In a realm of existence where books are illegal and
creativity is dead; what does this place, this government strive for in their
society? Ignorance, censorship, and control; that is life in the short story
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. All they ever see from the media are five
minutes skits on the TV walls, nothing of news happening all around them, keeping
the citizens locked in their own little worlds of delusional happy endings and
no sadness.
In this society, mindless skits are
played over and over again in rooms built floor to ceiling with TV screens. Each
“program” only last five minutes and has no real plot, just people talking and
the viewer often forgets what the events in the show even were. When Guy Montag
switched off the screens and actually attempted to have a normal conversation
with his wife, Mildred, she became anxious, fidgety, and extremely
uncomfortable. Why though? Why would this woman be so intimidated by a simple
conversation with her spouse? Because she is not used to having to talk to
another person in such a way, normally the discuss the programs or upgrading
for a better TV room, not thinking about how they met or thinking at all.
Very few people think about values
and character of a person, when Mildred and her friends would “discussing
politics” all they actually talked about was the men’s appearances. (QUOTE)
Nothing of what the men wanted to accomplish as president, their values or
principles, just which one looked and sounded better. A war is on the verge of
beginning and people are already being shipped out to fight but they think
“He’ll be back next week. The Army said so. Quick war. Forty-eight hours, they
said, and everyone home” (94).
The Army said so? So you one is
chooses to go against what the army says? Not everyone will come home, why are
they telling people no one will die? Because they don’t want the citizens to
feel, to express unhappy emotions, to start questioning why
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