Theme Of Loneliness In Fahrenheit 451
“We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. there’s a certain disconnection. we don't have any real sense of community anymore”(Ball). Similarly, Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451, this society in the future is disconnected with one another. In the society where firemen burn books, Montag is a firemen who believes books might reconnect society again. He believes with the help of an old english professor, Faber, and himself can help reconnect society once again. A few obstacles appear, causing Montag to run out of the city meeting others like him, believing society one day might need the help of books to be fix everything. Bradbury demonstrates throughout the book that alienation from others can lead to loneliness.
To begin,
society has encouraged people to grow away from one another. the people have grown so far apart, they are at the point where they have to take a pill to sleep, or even function. Montag comes home to see Mildred asleep with “the small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lays uncapped and empty in the light of the flame”(Bradbury 11). The two, Mildred and Montag, show no emotions towards one another. Montag showing no emotion even though his wife Mildred almost dies, and Mildred not even know what has happened. Not engaging in a meaningful or a talk, is fine with this society. Another example is that Montag asks Mildred “what I want to know is… when did we meet? and where?”(Bradbury 40). Mildred then replies with it doesn’t matter and to let go of it, a day you remember for the rest of your life. A day that resembles the day you fell in love, but in this society everyone is with someone to be apart of society, to follow the norms.
Another example of alienation is that no one is capable of controlling their actions. Montag looks for help from a guy named Faber, who tells him “ the ‘televisor is real’... It rushes you on so quickly to its conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest”(Bradbury 90). This is a society where mass media has a bigger concern on your mind then your family. You push everyone away, except the t.v., so much like when Guy Montag, who read a passage to Mildred and her friends and says “go home and think of of your.. second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of your dozen abortions you’ve had… and your children who hate your guts”(Bradbury 98). Children don’t like their parents, and marriage has no mean. they marry so they can fit in with the norms, and when they are married they don’t take a single action in trying to establish a relationship either.
Setting yourself apart from everyone else can cause loneliness. when society encourages separation and lack of controlled actions, then no one is living life to its fullest. Doesn’t everyone deserve to have the happiness in their life?
To begin,
society has encouraged people to grow away from one another. the people have grown so far apart, they are at the point where they have to take a pill to sleep, or even function. Montag comes home to see Mildred asleep with “the small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lays uncapped and empty in the light of the flame”(Bradbury 11). The two, Mildred and Montag, show no emotions towards one another. Montag showing no emotion even though his wife Mildred almost dies, and Mildred not even know what has happened. Not engaging in a meaningful or a talk, is fine with this society. Another example is that Montag asks Mildred “what I want to know is… when did we meet? and where?”(Bradbury 40). Mildred then replies with it doesn’t matter and to let go of it, a day you remember for the rest of your life. A day that resembles the day you fell in love, but in this society everyone is with someone to be apart of society, to follow the norms.
Another example of alienation is that no one is capable of controlling their actions. Montag looks for help from a guy named Faber, who tells him “ the ‘televisor is real’... It rushes you on so quickly to its conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest”(Bradbury 90). This is a society where mass media has a bigger concern on your mind then your family. You push everyone away, except the t.v., so much like when Guy Montag, who read a passage to Mildred and her friends and says “go home and think of of your.. second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of your dozen abortions you’ve had… and your children who hate your guts”(Bradbury 98). Children don’t like their parents, and marriage has no mean. they marry so they can fit in with the norms, and when they are married they don’t take a single action in trying to establish a relationship either.
Setting yourself apart from everyone else can cause loneliness. when society encourages separation and lack of controlled actions, then no one is living life to its fullest. Doesn’t everyone deserve to have the happiness in their life?