(MIP 1) due to technology the people in Montag’s society do not act like humans because they forget things a lot and become antisocial. (SIP-A) people in Montag’s society only pay attention to their TV, this causes them to forget things. (STEWE-1) the people in Montag’s society only pay attention to their TV. technology caused Mildred to take “two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and where so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you (17).” This shows how technology is dangerous causes people to forget things. (STEWE-2) Another example of people forgetting things in Montag’s society is when Montag asks Millie how they met and where they met. Millie cannot remember because her …show more content…
(SIP-A) one problem that technology has caused is that there is a lot of violence in their society. (STEWE-1) An example of there being lots of violence in their society is when Clarisse says “I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other . . . six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I’m afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid (27).” this quote shows how people just go out in the world and hurt and kill people just for fun. (STEWE-2) another example of people resorting to violence in Montag’s society is how Mildred tells Montag to kick a dog because he was sad. “He felt he wanted to cry, but nothing would happen to his eyes or his mouth. ‘If you see that dog outside,’ said Mildred ‘give him a kick for me (73).’” This shows how when Montag was sad Mildred told him to kick a dog. Hurting innocent things has become nothing for the people in Montag’s society, they just do it for fun. (SIP-B) another problem technology has caused in Montag’s society is causing the lack of socialization and communication with other human beings. (STEWE-1) When Mildred has her friends over and Montag unplugs the TV. When Montag unplugs the TV all of the women are confused and mad at him. “Montag reached inside the parlor walls and pulled the main switch...The three women turned slowly and looked with unconcealed irritation and then dislike …show more content…
(SIP-A) The people that don't use technology are not negatively affected because they can socialize with other people unlike people who have been affected by technology. (STEWE-1) Clarisse, Montag’s neighbor talks to montag and asks him questions because Clarisse is not affected by technology and she is not being distracted by it. “‘ Do you mind if I ask? How long have you worked at being a fireman?’ Since I was twenty, ten years ago.’ ‘Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That's against the law!’ (5)” This quote shows how Clarisse is not being distracted by technology so she wants to get to know more people. People in Montag's society who have been negatively affected by technology wouldn't want to talk to people and get to know them, they would just want to use their technology. (STEWE-2) Another reason on how people who don’t use technology socialize with other people is when Montag finds the men at the train tracks and they talked to each other. “‘Listen,’ said Granger, taking his arm, and walking with him, holding aside the bushes to let him pass. ‘When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give in the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town; and he made toys for us…’” this shows that people who don't abuse and get distracted by technology socialize. (SIP-B) When people in Montag’s
Times have changed and people have become dull. Montag has realized this. His wife, Mildred is now dull which has caused him to no longer love her. Mildred is self-centered. One night while Montag was talking to Mildred, he realized how self-centered she was.
In this part of the book, all of the firemen including Montag received a call to burn a house with the books in there. Here became the turning point for Montag as he saw the woman, who already had made her decision to die rather than live in a world of oppression and restricted freedom of thought which books symbolize in this part, burns with the illegal books in the burning house, refusing to go out without the assurance of the safety of the books. We can suppose that his perception is gradually changing through the phrase showing that Montag felt a huge guilt over this, unlike the other firemen or Beatty. Furthermore, during the conversation with his wife, Mildred, Montag says, “We burn a thousand books. We burnt a woman.
Montag was never really happy with Mildred, his happiness was a mask he didn't know about. The mask had been taken off when Montag's true colors were shown. Mildred wasn't much of a wife, or friend, to Montag. Mildred was only an acquaintance to Montag, as Montag didn't feel devastated for long. ¨Mildred, leaning anxiously nervously, as if to plunge, drop, fall into that swarming immensity of color to drown in its bright happiness.¨ (Bradbury 152)
In conclusion, throughout the entire novel, Montag continuously changes. He goes from loving his job, to rethink his job. In the end, he realizes that his job not only hurts him, but it hurts other people. He refuses to burn houses for the rest of the novel. He finally realizes that it is not good to burn other humans and their houses and
Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, presents a society in which humans suffer from depression, fear, and loss of empathy which are the result of censorship of free thought and knowledge. Humans suffer from loss of empathy due to their lack of human interaction. People live in fear of the government as the dystopian society deprives the people of knowledge. Depression is evidenced by suicidal tendencies caused by hollow lives. Bradbury uses the loss of empathy in order to demonstrate the effects that censorship of free thought and knowledge have upon the individual and society.
One time Montag walked into the ‘parlor’ and saw unknown people saying words that held no depth or meaning. He asked, “What was it all about? Mildred couldn’t say. Who was mad at whom? Mildred didn’t quite know.
The society in Fahrenheit 451 was ruined. Everyone thinks everything is going just fine when in reality it is not. Montag was one of the only people that realize the wrong in society and tried to fix it. In order to convince Mrs. Boyle that society needed to change montag uses logos by brings up facts and reasons why the society is bad and pathos by bringing up sad moments in her life.
When Montag reveals his hidden books to Mildred, she does not take time to understand them. “‘It doesn’t mean anything!’” (Bradbury 65). She, instead, worries about how it might affect her image if they are found out. “He could hear her breathing rapidly and her face paled out and her eyes were fastened wide” (Bradbury 63).
In the futuristic book Fahrenheit 451 reality is turned upside down when heroes become villains. The world is blind to the evils that lay inside the government. The people who aren't are educated are hunted, and seen as insane. Morals will be put to the test, and although this book focuses on one man's journey through it all, it is very clear that the issues this fictional society faces could not be to far from issues what could happen in real life. Fahrenheit 451 is a direct representation of the theme man vs society and his journey to wake up the sleeping civilians of the United states.
(STEWE-2) Besides asking questions about society’s relationships, Montag questions further and starts asking about society’s rules on burning books after he experiences a woman burn with her books. He says to Mildred, “'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.'" (Bradbury 48). Montag, before, had blindly followed and enforced society’s rules about burning books.
The word illicit sums up the confusion and weakness of the main character, Montag, a follower of the dystopian society, but introduced to a new way of thinking, but he is incapable of handling the contrast of reality and what life is really about. The oppression of dystopian society reveals when he is unsettled about his life due to several instances which make him begin to think beyond his ability and act irrationally rebelling to in an attempt to make changes in society. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury illicits a rebellion through the characterization of Guy Montag as he questions the direction of society in order to suggest the audience does the same thing. Unsettled in his life, the protagonist, Guy Montag is forced to question the status quo of his 2025 society which make him begin to think beyond his ability and act irrationally rebelling to in an attempt to make changes.
Alienation is an experience of being isolated from a group or a society. It is something that affects people everyday at school, work or any social events. The theme of alienation is showed in The Lego Movie when the character tries very hard to meet society’s standards. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 alienation is showed when no one listens or pays attention to the protagonist. The Lego Movie and Fahrenheit 451 does a good job demonstrating the theme of alienation with the usage of character emotions, feelings and society’s standards and labels throughout the movie and the novel.
The first line of dialogue that Montag says is “it was a pleasure to burn”(pg. 1), which elucidates that he is just like the rest of the society. Bradbury introduces both of these characters as ignorant so the reader is able to draw a similarity between the way Montag is illustrated in the first page and how Mildred is characterized throughout the novel. This aids in tracing Montag’s coming of age journey because as he gets enlightened, the reader is able to distinguish how his mindset starts to diverge further away from Mildred’s. At the very end of the second chapter leading into the beginning of the third chapter, Beatty orders Montag to burn his own house, and as Beatty is speaking to Montag, Mildred runs past them “with her body stiff”(pg. 108). Through the employment of body language, Bradbury implies that Mildred is the one that turned Montag in to
Clarisse enlightens Montag on the past when people were not afraid to share their thoughts and opinions. Speaking without a filter in her mind, Clarisse immediately connects with Montag. He had not felt like that in a long while as his wife can get caught up in her own mind. Clarisse asks
In conclusion, technology can have negative impacts on today’s people in many ways. It is harmful to people’s well-being, makes people lose physical connections with those around them, and it makes students disregard their work. Technology is everywhere in today’s society. These devices can be so harmful to people without them even knowing it. People should be more aware of what technology can do, and try their best not to depend on