Dover Beach As A Theme In Fahrenheit 451

For a second, reflect on your life, do you have any internal wars in which you’ve always wanted to keep a secret, or do you do the same thing every single day and you know how much your life sucks but you don’t do anything about it? In Fahrenheit 451 composed by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is the main protagonist who lives within a dystopian world where books are being burned because the government wants everyone to be happy and doing so has ruined the culture of their world. A poem named Dover Beach by Ray Arnold has many themes of which are built off of in the novel Fahrenheit 451. In Dover Beach an unnamed guy compares our live to the ocean, and how the sea is constantly doing the same thing over and over which realizing it now is a very sad thing, he also notices how the pebbles within the ocean are like people and the water is like faith when the ocean is full there is tons of faith but when the ocean isn’t as full, there is no faith to be found. Fahrenheit 451 builds and transforms the themes of internal struggles, loss of religion and the repetition of our lives.
Bradbury develops the theme internal struggles from Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach. Arnold uses this quote to show the internal struggles within our lives “Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight / Where ignorant armies clash by night” (Arnold lines 36-37). Within the poem Dover Beach, this quote shows us how were always fighting a constant battle, if it’s from trying not to eat that last piece of pie or trying to get that raise at work, we’re constantly in a fight. Now, in Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury builds off of this them by creating character named Guy Montag. Montag devolves this internal struggle when Bradbury introduces the character Clarisse. Clarisse makes Montag ponder if he is actually