Relationships In Fahrenheit 451
Living in a world where mistrust and deceit runs a totalitarian government. Ray Bradbury created a dystopia, where everyone in society questions one another's knowledge and criticizes other based on how different they are from everyone else. Trusting others is questionable throughout the novel. Meanwhile, everyone isolates each other from the rest of the world, where lacking of communication come into play and causes to make poor judgements towards another individual. In Bradbury Fahrenheit 451, mostly everyone in society lacks meaningful relation due to poor communication and trust. Having a relationship with another individual is meaningless and only worth little to nothing. Bradbury describes how Montag and Mildred’s relationship has
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Everyone is easily judge by their actions causing others to live in fear base on their role in the current society: “I’m antisocial, they say, I don’t mix” (59). Clarisse does not get along with the children or teachers at her school because her action classifies to be out of the norm. Other than not being able to get along with others, there is a huge lack of trust that also comes into play. Living in the society causes people to question if other knows about something and become terrified to converse with another individual. When Montag starts to ask how many certain numbers of copies are left of the bible, Faber starts getting defensive and says “This is some sort of trap! I can’t talk to just anyone on the phone!” (104). Having everyone in society that used to own books or was a professor in their past life, causes them to get defensive and tries to protect themselves to stay out of the government's radar. Not only questioning the higher authorities and being defensive, characters think they know a person after spending years with them and they go against you, “It’s pretty silly, quoting poetry around free and easy like that” (144). Everyone has to watch what they do around others because there are consequences for every action. Friendship relations only can extend to a certain point, and everyone only talks about what they want to hear about causing no sense of proper communication and difficult to gain trust towards one
Everyone is easily judge by their actions causing others to live in fear base on their role in the current society: “I’m antisocial, they say, I don’t mix” (59). Clarisse does not get along with the children or teachers at her school because her action classifies to be out of the norm. Other than not being able to get along with others, there is a huge lack of trust that also comes into play. Living in the society causes people to question if other knows about something and become terrified to converse with another individual. When Montag starts to ask how many certain numbers of copies are left of the bible, Faber starts getting defensive and says “This is some sort of trap! I can’t talk to just anyone on the phone!” (104). Having everyone in society that used to own books or was a professor in their past life, causes them to get defensive and tries to protect themselves to stay out of the government's radar. Not only questioning the higher authorities and being defensive, characters think they know a person after spending years with them and they go against you, “It’s pretty silly, quoting poetry around free and easy like that” (144). Everyone has to watch what they do around others because there are consequences for every action. Friendship relations only can extend to a certain point, and everyone only talks about what they want to hear about causing no sense of proper communication and difficult to gain trust towards one