Book Report: Fahrenheit 451
SECTION A –(1)
On one day, after watching the movie named “Fahrenheit 451” in the English class, I started to thinking about what we are calling happiness . I browsed the web and came across this quotation “ Happiness is a positive range of emotions that we feel when we are content or full of joy” ,which is Cocacola ‘s definition . Then, I reminded of Beatty’s saying in the film ”Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full full of facts they feel stuffed…then they’ll get a sense of motion without moving, and they’ll be happy…”. I began to suspect our understanding about what called happiness, which seem to be only about pleasure, satisfaction, and full of nothing. After that, I have realized that the film predicted much of our reality in 2013, especially about definition of happiness. In this paper, I would like to base on the common points between “Fahrenheit 451” and our modern society, to prove that we are misunderstanding about definition of so-called happiness and then, to re-define happiness.
Firstly ,what is the misunderstanding about happiness? One first thing I want to point out is the misunderstanding between happiness and pleasure. While in modern society and in Fahrenheit 451, happiness seem to come together with well-being, pleasure, short-term happiness when you feel satisfied or fulled with something without making afford, in the past, happiness processes from achievement of one’s value, which is long-term happiness, the real happiness.. For example, in “ Fahrenheit 451”, we can see in the case of Montag’s wife, she thought that she was happy because she had everything easily without effort. But in fact, she wasn’t happy, she tried many times to suicide herself. Todays, we are the same case with her. The word “happiness “ has been used very commonly, Cocacola’s new campaign concludes Happiness Machine, Happiness Truck, Happiness Music, Happiness people and so on… It’s appear to be very strange that you can get happy
On one day, after watching the movie named “Fahrenheit 451” in the English class, I started to thinking about what we are calling happiness . I browsed the web and came across this quotation “ Happiness is a positive range of emotions that we feel when we are content or full of joy” ,which is Cocacola ‘s definition . Then, I reminded of Beatty’s saying in the film ”Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full full of facts they feel stuffed…then they’ll get a sense of motion without moving, and they’ll be happy…”. I began to suspect our understanding about what called happiness, which seem to be only about pleasure, satisfaction, and full of nothing. After that, I have realized that the film predicted much of our reality in 2013, especially about definition of happiness. In this paper, I would like to base on the common points between “Fahrenheit 451” and our modern society, to prove that we are misunderstanding about definition of so-called happiness and then, to re-define happiness.
Firstly ,what is the misunderstanding about happiness? One first thing I want to point out is the misunderstanding between happiness and pleasure. While in modern society and in Fahrenheit 451, happiness seem to come together with well-being, pleasure, short-term happiness when you feel satisfied or fulled with something without making afford, in the past, happiness processes from achievement of one’s value, which is long-term happiness, the real happiness.. For example, in “ Fahrenheit 451”, we can see in the case of Montag’s wife, she thought that she was happy because she had everything easily without effort. But in fact, she wasn’t happy, she tried many times to suicide herself. Todays, we are the same case with her. The word “happiness “ has been used very commonly, Cocacola’s new campaign concludes Happiness Machine, Happiness Truck, Happiness Music, Happiness people and so on… It’s appear to be very strange that you can get happy