Themes In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury is the author of Fahrenheit 451 a book that displays different reality for the society being spoken about in the novel. Throughout the story, Bradbury brings in several different themes as well as topics acquired with the main storyline as a way to open the eyes of the reader to a different type of society. One of these topics he portrays throughout the whole story is a minor character doesn’t need to play a large role in the novel to have a major impact on the outcome. A character doesn’t have to play a major part in something to make an immense difference in the outcome of the story, the mental presence of a character can at times play a more important part than their physical presence, and words spoken can have more of an impact
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For example, Clarisse talked a great deal about things people normally didn’t talk about in the society and these conversations often got Montag thinking about his way of living. “He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?”” (Bradbury, 31). Montag was simply questioning his fellow firemen risky questions about books and when he tried to cover his tracks a conversation he had with Clarisse popped back into his mind spilling the question before he could register the consequences. Secondly, Faber’s words helped Montag distinguish the clear perspective of the jumbled up thoughts Montag tried to untangle. “Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.” (Bradbury, 81). Faber was explaining to Montag that what he felt was missing wasn’t the physical book itself, but the meaning behind the books that society once feared to forget. Ultimately, the power of words is more defined than what this society can in truth grasp because they weren’t brought up thinking detailed thoughts that can have a deeper meaning behind
For example, Clarisse talked a great deal about things people normally didn’t talk about in the society and these conversations often got Montag thinking about his way of living. “He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?”” (Bradbury, 31). Montag was simply questioning his fellow firemen risky questions about books and when he tried to cover his tracks a conversation he had with Clarisse popped back into his mind spilling the question before he could register the consequences. Secondly, Faber’s words helped Montag distinguish the clear perspective of the jumbled up thoughts Montag tried to untangle. “Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.” (Bradbury, 81). Faber was explaining to Montag that what he felt was missing wasn’t the physical book itself, but the meaning behind the books that society once feared to forget. Ultimately, the power of words is more defined than what this society can in truth grasp because they weren’t brought up thinking detailed thoughts that can have a deeper meaning behind