Fahrenheit 451 Rhetorical Analysis Essay

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury introduces the future world of people living in censorship by the media and electronics who they consider as “family”. In Beatty’s speech, he talked about how the society tend to eliminate books in order to maintain and protect people’s happiness. Therefore, Beatty’s speech mainly focused on the fact that being ignorant provides the key to happiness. The tone of a literary work is the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character. Throughout the speech, Ray Bradbury used the literary device tone to persuade Montag to see the importance of rejecting knowledge. Ray Bradbury used the literary device tone to enhance how Beatty is as a character in the book, which also connects to the central idea by showing his loyalty towards the government of supporting the abolishment of knowledge. In section four, Beatty stated his point of view that “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy.” This shows the depth Beatty has been brainwashed by the society because he now thinks that every man should be similar in a way in order to prevent arrogance within the society. By Beatty bringing up the constitution to support his claim, this proves his seriousness toward informing Montag about the situation. Therefore, he clearly shows that books …show more content…
Throught the speech, Beatty keeps on convincing Montag about how he can have curiosity like him, but books are just boring, useless and unhealthy at the end of the day. This also demonstrates the irony in Beatty’s tone because according to how meaningful and convincing his words are and his claims are, he’s just as knowledgable as the kind of people society wants to