Fahrenheit 451 Essay 1

 Prompt : "Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 as a dystopian novel, a work featuring a negative view of society in the future.  The lives of the characters are filled with entertainment but little true happiness.  Describe three features in the world of the novel that lead to such a state?  One example of a feature is the rampant use of “seashell” radios by the characters.  How could this device contribute to the unhappiness even as it seems to provide information and entertainment?  Other features may go beyond the realm of devices to that of activities, events, values, and expectations.  Pay attention to specific examples of such features as you read the novel and consider how each one plays a role in the dystopian world created by Bradbury."

 What has the world that we live in created for us? Why is it that a mane and a woman, or even a husband and wife cant even have a normal day to day conversation with each other. In Fahrenheit 451 Montage and his wife Mildred don't even sit and talk to each other about what is going on in their day and what they think is going on in their relationship. There are so many different things wrong in this society that Montage lives in which is slowly starting to become the society that we live in in todays world. Montages society is a great reflection of what is happening in time and what might happen in time.

     Many things could have led to the society that Guy Montage lives in but the major aspect was having the parlor walls. The parlor walls are what they used as a television, it was  a large canvas over multiple walls in your house. The fact that there are people that watch television more than communicate with each other anymore is very disrespectful and unnecessary. Now a days its even worse that people admit to sitting in their rooms or sitting in a room in their house and only watching TV instead of talking to someone in their family.  Montage's wife Millie would rather sit in front of the "walls" than be social or have an intellectual conversation with him,  let alone have any conversation at all. 

        People in the story seem to continuously speed through the days and speed through life. Even while they are driving, they can't take a second of time to look at the scenery. Clarisse said in the book, "If you showed a man a green blob he'd say that's a field of grass." This meaning that the people in this society don't really pay attention to anything but instead see the colors of what is going on around them. It's strange that anyone  would rather watch T.V or movies than talk to their family or friends or anybody around them. Going through life not knowing what is going on around you is a terrible way to go through life no matter who you are or what you do. You should never go through life just watching any type of social media or anything because its all things that we created to make people judge others, when human interaction is so necessary.

        In the book  Montage says that his wife had the sea shells in her ears all the time even when she was sleeping. How does he go through things knowing that his wife really doesn't want to face reality or pay attention to it at all? She can go through the days blocking out everything that the world has to give her and everything that is going on with her husband. The fact that she tried to kill herself and didn't even recognize that she did, shows how little she pays attention or acknowledges her own actions. 

       All in all, Montage wanted the same things that Clarisse did. He really didn't know it till the day he met her. What he wanted weren't possessions they were memories or real emotions, but instead he  wanted to look back on his life and remember things of importance. He wanted to be able to feel something in his life, but all he felt was empty. His wife, Mildred, didn't even remember where Montage and her had met. In thus showing that after Clarisse had died he wanted to search for answers about the way things were in society and why things were they way they were.