Role Of Society In Fahrenheit 451

Can you imagine a society where books are banned? Can you imagine a society where fireman start fires instead of extinguish them? Well, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 written by famous writer Ray Bradbury explains how a book-less society can impact human beings in many ways. Bradbury tells us the story of a fireman named Guy Montag whose duty was to burn any house with books found in it. In the beginning, he is content with his government and laws and is a loyal supporter of the censorship society and imminent war. After many tragic events, Montag tries to discover ways to break away from the society and challenge the established government and its subgroups. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses multiple characters like Montag and Faber to show how outsiders can target people in power and can break national laws to challenge the establishment. Montag challenges the establishment by killing his
In other words, Bradbury makes Montag do multiple things like break their society's laws and also challenge the people in power to weaken his government and spread his ideas. During the scene when Montag kills Beatty, Bradbury says “And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (Bradbury 119). This quote from the novel, Fahrenheit 451, shows that Bradbury purposely made Montag kill his fire department leader Beatty to show a way of challenging the establishment. Furthermore, killing Beatty slowed down the communication of the fire house which lead to less burning of books, and also lead Montag to the hobos near the railroad track who shared the same ideas as him. Altogether, Bradbury uses this horrific scene to show how outsiders like Montag challenge the establishment by destroying power and get their ideas across to the