Examples Of Emotions In Fahrenheit 451
Do they really show their true emotions or are they hiding them behind a mask? Do they know what family is really or is it just a screen? Do they share emotions? Do they have conversations? In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shares similarities and differences involving the corruption of human interaction and gilded emotions. Our world and the dystopian society presented in F451 are very similar yet shares many differences especially within emotions and social interactions. Many people in both societies have different types of emotions but also many similar ones. The people in the dystopian society are very distant and shallow they don’t interact with the people and almost are fake. They are obsessed with their screens/ TV’s and
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The dystopian society doesn’t show or tell how they feel. For example, the dystopian society has a hard time projecting their feelings to other people. On page 98 in F451 Guy says, “ Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and you third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your god damn Caesarean sections, too, and your children who hate your guts!Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it?” This showed that Montag was angry and finally telling Mildred how he feels and what he is feeling. The dystopian society doesn’t show feelings towards other people and just do what they want in the moment and don’t think about how anything can benefit the future. Also, on page 7-8 in F451 Clarisse asked Montag if he was happy, happy with Mildred, happy with his life. He said yes but Clarisse could tell how he wasn’t happy from only knowing him for a couple minutes. Similarly both of our societies struggle with feelings and the first thing people go to is drugs, in each world the people have problems with drug abuse or suicides and it's because people don’t tell others how they feel or if they need help which ends badly in most cases. However, in our society we have doctors to go to to get help or to talk to like: Dr. Phil, Oprah, etc. or other tv
The dystopian society doesn’t show or tell how they feel. For example, the dystopian society has a hard time projecting their feelings to other people. On page 98 in F451 Guy says, “ Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and you third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your god damn Caesarean sections, too, and your children who hate your guts!Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it?” This showed that Montag was angry and finally telling Mildred how he feels and what he is feeling. The dystopian society doesn’t show feelings towards other people and just do what they want in the moment and don’t think about how anything can benefit the future. Also, on page 7-8 in F451 Clarisse asked Montag if he was happy, happy with Mildred, happy with his life. He said yes but Clarisse could tell how he wasn’t happy from only knowing him for a couple minutes. Similarly both of our societies struggle with feelings and the first thing people go to is drugs, in each world the people have problems with drug abuse or suicides and it's because people don’t tell others how they feel or if they need help which ends badly in most cases. However, in our society we have doctors to go to to get help or to talk to like: Dr. Phil, Oprah, etc. or other tv