A Burning Intellect in Fahrenheit 451 :: Fahrenheit 451 Essays

A Burning Intellect in Fahrenheit 451   In the 1950 novel Fahrenheit 451, AUTHOR Ray Bradbury presents the nowadays familiar images of mind controlING worlds. People now live in a world where they are blind from the legality of the present and the past. The novel is cast in the, perhaps near, future where the world is AT war, and firemen set fires kind of of putting them come in. Books and written knowledge ARE banned from the people, and it is the firemens job to burning at the stake books. Firemen are the policemen of THE forthcoming. Some people bemuse rebelled by hiding books, nevertheless have not been very successful. Most people have conformed to THE FUTURE world. Guy Montag, a fireman, is a part of the majority who have conformed. exactly throughout the novel Montag goes through a transformation,  where he changes from a conformist to a Revolutionary.                Guy Montag has never head worded his j ob before the day he met Clarisse  McClellan. FOR ONCE Montag is confronted with the idea that, he does NOT understand the whole truth about books.<WHAT DO YOU MEAN?> Montag meets Clarisse one day, as he is walking home from work, and they BEGIN A conversation. During their conversation Montag is questioned why books are extralegal and why firemen burn the books. CLARISSE also asks him if he had ever read any(prenominal) of the books that he burned. His reply was that it is against the law. Clarisse even asks, ... long ago did firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?(Fahrenheit 451, page 38) Montag replies by telling her that that is nonsense, and that Houses have always been fireproof,...(Fahrenheit 451, page 38) Here you can see how brainwashed and blinded the truth is for the people. Clarisse says good night to Montag, and right before she leaves she asks him, Are you joyous?(Fahrenheit 451, page39) Before Montag can reply Clarisse is gone, and she leaves Montag pondering her question.  As he tells himself that her question was nonsense, he starts to realize that he is not happy with his life.               Someone else who changed Montags thinking, changed it by their actions not by tell him anything.<YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN MORE SO THE READER KNOWS WHAT YOU MEAN.> One day the firemen got a call with an address of psyche who was hiding books. The firemen, doing their job like always, went to the house to find the books and burn them.