...Fahrenheit 451 Quotes Identity Quotes: 1) "You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow." Montag’s identity crisis begins during his conversations with Clarisse. We immediately sense conflict between his desire to be a dutiful member of society and his inner belief that something is wrong. 2)"I mean," he said, "in the old days, before homes were completely fireproofed–" Suddenly it seemed a much younger voice was speaking for him. He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, "Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?" Montag escapes the guilt of betraying his duty by ascribing his actions to other things: in this case, to another person 3) The numbness will go away, he thought. It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me. Someone somewhere will give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were. Even the smile, he thought, the old burnt-in smile, that's gone. I'm lost without it. Montag isn’t just talking about the numbness in his legs; he’s afraid of his new rebellious, fugitive self. 4) "All of those chemical balances and percentages on all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs. It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound's ‘memory,’ a touch of amino acids, perhaps. That would account for what the animal did just now. Reacted...
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...“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.” This is just one of the numerous significant quotes by Ray Bradbury in the novel Fahrenheit 451. The book Fahrenheit 451 was written in the 50’s during the time where book banning and censorship was realistic. It was written because of Bradbury’s belief that the world would look tyrannical in the future. The civilians in the book do not think divergently or question anything, and books are prohibited. Anybody who owns a book or has possession of them will face consequences that include arson of their home and imprisonment, which is the fireman's job to take care of. The firemen, including Montag the main character, find the citizens who have books and light their homes on fire. However, once Montag meets a girl named Clarisse, a “bizarre person” according to society because she has curiosity, everything changes. He begins to have his own beliefs...
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...Theme Thesis The theme that FAHRENHEIT 451 is trying to express throughout the book is that the authoritarian government doesn’t want people having independent thoughts. I believe this is what Ray Bradbury was trying to express by how the Society acted towards books. Also By how the motif books go well with social control vs individualism since everyone is supposed to act the same and no one is allowed to think differently. With the quotes that I have found throughout the book, I will support that the authoritarian government doesn’t want independence thoughts. The following quotes from page eight and nine “ ‘Do you read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed.‘ That’s against the law!’” and “ ‘ I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls’ or go to races or Fun Parks. So I’ve lots of time for crazy thoughts… He suddenly...
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...Montag Changes in Fahrenheit 451 “It’s fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.” said Montag. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury this quote shows what the book is about and how Montag thinks of books in the beginning. Montag changed a lot through the story he went from a routine life to being enlightened/ understanding books to rebelling in the end. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag was brought up believing books were worthless so he didn’t care if they burned or not. In the book Montag states “It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1). In the beginning Montag didn’t think twice about burning books he just did his job. An important person/ experience...
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...“Robert Reilly claims that the novel is "a frightening picture of how the products of science can destroy persons and human values" (67), but this is an unfortunate simplification” (McGiveron). This quote brings up another overlaying theme in Fahrenheit 451 which is the dehumanization of the populace in the novel. The people in this book no longer care about anything whether it be their children, war, death, or the problems in the world around them. This is because the less they had to think the more they stopped to care and they gradually stopped caring about anything at all. Death, war, famine, and pain are all just words to them and mean nothing because they no longer understand the gravity of these concepts and it is all because...
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...Kevin Kim Mr.Cimetta ENG 4U 13 May 2015 Fahrenheit 451 Essay The society of Fahrenheit 451 is filled with corruption and betrayal. Governments use technology to control over their people but as the novel shows, it is almost impossible to keep everyone in control. Through Montag’s meeting with Clarisse, Montag’s betrayal against the government, and government’s use of technology thoroughly showed the corrupted society created by the government in the novel, Fahrenheit 451. The protagonist, Guy Montag, also spent his entire life in the corrupted society created by Bradbury. He worked for the government since he was twenty years old for ten years as a fireman. In the novel’s society, fireman’s job was to burn down books. Montag says, “Books make people unhappy, they make them anti-social”. This quote shows how Montag is also part of the corrupted society. “As they walk home together, Clarisse asks Montag about being a fireman. At first, he laughs at her questions, like when she asks why has never read a book. “That’s against the law!” he laughs” (Bradbury 5). This scene shows how books are forbidden from the society. As mentioned above, Montag worked for the government as a fireman since he was twenty years old for ten years. He never questioned or thought about why books were...
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...To begin with, in the novel Fahrenheit 451 the quote states, “You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both”(Bradbury 121). He wants to show that Beatty taught him how to face his intellectual words and turn them into ashes, as he has proven was not much of an obstacle after all. This quote shows just how far society will go to make sure everyone is following the same supremacy. It is stating just how brainwashed the people are by the government. Montag was facing a problem and actually did something about it which he never would have done before, in this world problems are dealt with fire not actions of your own thought. In the end, Montag in a way is getting the last laugh over Beattys’ body. In addition, Montag and Beatty have always had a complicated relationship throughout the novel’s storyline. Beatty is somewhat of Montag’s catalyst as well because he ignites a flame in Montag,...
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...A'Lexxus Foster April 17, 2015 American Literature Greene Running Title. “ Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a novel set in a dystopian world full of ignorance, authority, disloyalty and most prominently, power. The form of government depicted in the novel can be described as some type of authoritarianism in which the citizens appear to have limited interaction and zero influence. Thus, the culture is molded through the broadcasting and the media substitute for actual human contact, with the government or anyone else. So long as the public is distracted and uneducated, the government seems to believe, they will be compliant and effortlessly handled. In the novel, we learn that very of the few citizen's challenge this administration’s...
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...Tove Ditlevsen, a Danish poet and author from the 20th century once said, “Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life” (“Tove Ditlevsen”). Opposite to the quote, in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, citizens are not able to think and remember. By controlling thoughtless people, the government gains all the power and control. People lose themselves because they lack memory and knowledge. As a result, those in power gain through people not having knowledge and memory, but the individual citizens lose something important. In Montag’s society, memory and knowledge hold no real meaning. People have been trained to be thoughtless in Montag’s society. At schools kids have, “‘an hour of TV class. An hour of basketball or baseball or running...we...
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...The roles of Victim, Villain, and Venerable are crucial to developing plot and action within a novel. While most novels boast these traits as a part of three separate characters, there are some single protagonists who display all three. An example of this can be found in the character of Guy Montag from the work Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In different chapters, Guy is found to act in honourable, disgraceful, and pitiful ways. The victim aspect of Guy’s character is best personified in the constant bullying he receives as a member of the fire department. “Montag hesitated, ‘Was-was it always like this? The firehouse, our work? I mean, well, once upon a time…’ ‘Once upon a time!’ Beatty said, ‘What kind of talk is THAT?’” As someone seen...
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...(AGG) Selfishness has proven itself to change people and weaken a society. (BS-1) Due to the advanced technology in the society, people have put themselves before friends and family.(BS-2) People in the society think that their own priorities and enjoyment are more important than the safety of other citizens. (BS-3) Technology has caused people to have many problems and the people believe that the only way to deal with these problems is to take it out on others which is very selfish. (TS) In the book Fahrenheit 451 technology prevents people from being able to care for others and only being able to care about themselves. (MIP-1)The technology in the society has caused people to put themselves before their family and friends and not care about being selfish. (SIP-A) The...
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...Fahrenheit 451-Roberson The society has changed in the last decade. In the text fahrenheit 451 it shows how the tech and society has changed. Many reasons why Mildred is not acting like a human. First, people now-of days are what others would call selfish. In the text Beatty says, “People want to be happy. Don’t we keep them moving, don’t we give them fun?” Selfish people will only think about themselves. Mildred is a good example, she didn’t tell Montag about Clarisse’s death. Mildred said she “forgot” but really she just didn’t care. She didn’t care about how Montag felt. Next, technology has changed people in different ways. Good ways and bad ways, but mostly bad. Mildred is robotic,which means she is controlled by someone or something....
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...How does Mildred represent society? Do you know any people in your life who act like a clear representative of society? In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred serves as a prime example of someone like so, because she is basically the only one in the book who shows us the world Montag lives in. Mildred’s abstract personality provides for us a glimpse into the corrupt part of society that is so influenced by fake people. Her overuse of technology causes naivety, and the hatred of knowledge was only cultivated by what she heard from ignorant people. So she lives a life of truth and one a fake. Mildred’s obsession with technology and overuse of her electronic devices seem normal in the society of Fahrenheit 451. Her three TV-walls that obscure her parlor walls...
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...Dawson Ryberg Mr. Spitler 29 October 2014 Censorship Affects Society Censorship is a wall; blocking society from the imagination and ideas. Censorship is a shady area to what people do not know. In Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” he is about the society of firemen burning books rather than taking out fires; as does Medi Belortaja representing Censorship through a big scary snake and Salman Rushdie gets real proof of censorship through some real writers and cartoonists Censorship divides society into two groups: the good and not so good. In this case, Captain Beatty resembles the groot. After the woman burning herself to death with her own books, Montag says she said a quote before dying. Captain Beatty says that, “ A man named Latimer...
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...act? Or is it just in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, that technology changes their minds and thought. Referring to technology, “being there for you” Bradbury says,“Why go to a machine when you can go to a human being.” This is why technology is the reason for destruction and the feeling of being unoriginal. One example is, technology is taking over. “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away (Bradbury 16).” There is imagery and symbolism in this quote, it talks about how technology is compelling us and our minds. Another example that related to the thought of technology taking over is, “The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived wpbut was...
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