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Farhenheit 451 Literary Criticism Literary Criticism of Fahrenheit 451 Don't worry, be happy, or at least that's what everyone in Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit
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Literary Criticism of Fahrenheit 451
Don't worry, be happy, or at least that's what everyone in Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 thought. No matter what was going on around them, war, crime, or death, they were always happy
Or were they? Ray Bradbury wrote books about censorship in society forming around being censored totally or partially from books and television. In Fahrenheit 451 the main character, Montag, is a fireman whose job it is to burn books to keep the public from reading then and coming up with their own thoughts and ideas and not the ideas that the government puts in their heads. Wile he is burning books one day he opens one to read it and becomes obsessed with reading books. He turns on his fire chief and burns him, and goes to live with people who also read books and memorize them so that they can be reprinted then society is ready for them again. Three people that show that they are happy on the outside but are not truly happy are Montag, Mildred and Mrs. Phelps.
In the story, Montag, who is a fireman for the city thinks he is happy until he meets a neighbor girl named Clarisse. Clarisse is considered an oddball in the society of Fahrenheit 451 because she is "antisocial" in their world which actually means that she is social by today's standards. She talks to people about things instead of the people of 451 who talk about meaningless things that have no substance. Peter Sesario says that's she is considered to be this way because, "She was a sensitive, observant person who questioned society and was consequently eliminated by the government (3)."One day as Montag and Clarisse are walking down the street Clarisse says to Montag, "Are you Happy?"(10). Montag is speechless and before he could come up with and answer Clarisse is gone. As he enters his house he talks to himself, "Of course I'm happy. What does she think? I'm not?"(10) When he is saying this he looks up to the ceiling where he has Hidden...
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