...The View of Happiness in the Society of Fahrenheit 451 The dictionary states that Happiness in a state of well-being or contemptment. In our world we know happiness as a feeling when something good happens. Happiness is different for everyone. For example, to some it can be materialistic like getting new items. To others it could be just the ability to spend time with family and friends. Now how is happiness seen in Fahrenheit 451? At the beginning of the book after Clarisse and Montag meet, Clarisse asks if he is happy. He laughs if off but after a little starts rethinking it. On page 59, Captain Beatty says “People want to be happy, isn’t that right? Haven’t you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well aren’t they? Don’t we keep them moving, don’t we give them fun? That’s all we live for isn’t it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.” In this quote Captain Beatty is stating that the way to make people happy is to provide them with pleasure and fun. What happens in society when the pleasurable and fun things end? No one knows because people are always being provided with the supplies to keep them happy or busy enough that they think...
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...Essay The novel The Things They Carried works as a vessel, a mask that can fit on the face of any man left scarred by war. O'Brien paints war in a heighten and pellucid manner, stripping a soldier down to a basic primitive concept: the preservation of the body and the mind. Without the essenial exertion of the mind, we cannot lead our bodies. O'Brien illustrates how a common soldier struggles with moral duty, passion and discipline in the time of war. A moral duty is the desire to conduct a task in an attempt to obey a higher authority; or by following what one believes is right (morally or legally) without self interest or desire involved. Its a background force that leads man into action, the conviction that is instilled within every soldier...
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