Fahrenheit 451: Happiness?
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel of little happiness. Society as a whole has become content with watching television and wasting away their lives, while a few individuals ponder the true meaning of life and happiness. Bradbury throughout the book depicts what our world could become, and almost sends a warning to the reader on how to avoid this unfriendly fate.
The society that is portrayed during this novel is neither happy nor sad. The citizens are glued to their "walls", or gigantic televisions, and live a life that is remembered by nothing of importance. True happiness as a society in this novel is the idea of living with a sitcom family, and the dream of adding more wall size televisions. People do not creatively think, or for that matter truly show emotion. The society believes that by teaching freedoms and imagination, wars will break out, and qualms will spark. The remedy for free-thinking in Fahrenheit 451 is the exact opposite, burn everything......
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