When major or even minor problems are found within a society, they can cause a huge meltdown and even the destruction of the whole society. In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the society has to deal with some very big problems. The Fahrenheit 451 society was destroyed through its disregard human life, inability to think, and absence of imagination. In the book Fahrenheit 451, the society has to deal with some big problems that eventually lead to the destruction of itself. One of the problems that they had to deal with was its disregard for human life. One example of this is when Mildred hears about Clarisse’s death. She forgets to tell Montag until he brings it up to her four days later when she says, “Whole family moved out somewhere. But she is gone for good. I think she is dead” (Bradbury 47). This shows that even when Mildred knew that someone died, she did not really care, she just forgot about them. Another example of the disregard of human life in the Fahrenheit 451 society is when Mr. Beatty figured out that Montag had books, and Montag was trying to decide whether to go to work, when Montag says, “I have not decided. Right now I have got an awful feeling that I want to smash things and kill things” (64). This shows that even when there is the danger of driving fast, he is going to kill things just to let out his emotion, even if it is a human. The Fahrenheit 451 society had to deal with the disregard of human life, and without this, nobody cares about anyone else, they just care about themselves. This explains why the society was destroyed.
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When the importance of human life is taken away, the freedom to think is also taken away. In the Fahrenheit 451 Society, the government does not want people to be able to think, so it takes away everything that allows them to think. This is the main reason that the society is destroyed. One example is when Captain Beatty was