Plato's Allegory In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Complete consciousness, a mind state people have yet to achieve in our world, let alone this book's world. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury explores this topic. Plato’s allegory of the cave; a timeless classic of humanity’s faults. Escaping the cave always begins as a prisoner and either ends becoming one of them or achieving a state of developing consciousness; by asking oneself the simple question “am I happy?”
In 1839 as an African American you began a slave and either bought your way out or stayed on the same path as the millions before you. Montag, a prisoner to the shackles of society; begins his journey as a fireman. He stood there with a “Smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark”(Bradbury, 2) he breathed in the Kerosene. Montag loved burning with a passion, it was all he desired; “It was a pleasure to burn”(Bradbury, 1) people’s books because it was “the right thing to do”. Who ever said that it was correct to burn books. It is never established who, but we know why ‘they’ do it. All that it is know is Montag is a Fireman who works for a hierarchy agenda and not his own.To control the masses from ever thinking; to
Why am I doing what i’m doing. Montag of all people asks himself that question. With a little or should i say a lot of help from Clarisse. Clarisse is honestly single handedly changed the whole course of this entire book. By posing the question “are you happy” to Montag changed him. It changed Montage by allowing him to ask himself questions about his life. He ultimately realizes that no, I am not happy. Or is he, the argument could be made that Montag is just a man with a mental problem. He loves book, he must be killed. The thing is that the people saying that in the book are being controlled by the media and Government. They do not really know what's happening. Monkey see monkey do is a classic saying that would describe this book