Fahrenheit 451 and the obstacles to society’s happiness
In Fahrenheit 451 we tell the story of a man, Guy Montag. At first, our protagonist enjoys his firefighter profession, but in this dimension firefighters are dedicated to generating fires specifically from books, because these are an obstacle to society’s happiness. However, Guy begins to generate questions about the true reason for his job and in turn, of his life. In the course of the text we can see how Montag fights against his sense of living and ends up escaping from this society that only gives him oppression and censorship;But he joins a rebel group of intellectuals and together with these Montag, witnessing destruction due to the atomic war of his city, he is dedicated to rebuilding a society would totally tell the one he was.
At the beginning of the text, Montag entails a friendship with her 17 -year -old neighbor, called Clarisse McClellan, through her personality and curiosity, Montag generates reflections on her own life and realizes that he is not happy and ofthat the love he felt for his wife Mildred had vanished, although he chooses to be carried on interactive television, radio and tranquilizers.
Montag felt dissatisfied with his work and with a certain disgust with a society that no longer cared about the announcement of atomic war about to explode and begins to question how the world works and more clearly why books are qualified asdangerous. But the most important question is what is true power contain the dangerous books?
Being taken by its constant curiosity, Montag decides to steal a book from the collection that corresponded to burning, but when the time is the time Montag feels invaded by a feeling of depression when the owner of the books, an older woman, isdeny to leave your home. But the woman makes the decision that her house is burned, but with her. Given this act of total despair on the part of the woman, Montag goes home, and thinks that her long -awaited happiness will be within these books and analyzes that despite the fact that her services have been in "well -being" of the community, the community,Actually he has become an instrument of destruction of this. That same night talking to his wife, Montag learns that his neighboring friend Clarisse had died because a high speed car hit. This news was the drop that spilled the glass, Montag since it develops feelings such as miserability and falls asleep next to the stolen book.
The next day, our protagonist Montag refuses to go to work because he is supposedly sick and his boss, Captain Beatty, decides to visit it and somehow seems to be aware about the feelings of discomfort and the inner struggle that Montag isexperimenting and also of the books that may be in your possession. The captain tells Montag about how dangerous and offensive the books are and how they generated freedom of thought and opinions, which puts at risk the ideal happiness of their society;During the captain’s visit, Mildred organizes the bedroom where she finds her books, she gets shocked, so she decides to leave. While this happened in his bedroom Montag asks the capital what would happen if in hypothetical case a firefighter will take a book home and the captain answers that they only allow them to have a book in their possession, but that they must burn it within thefollowing 24 hours of your possession.
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