Post by Thanos Copter 🚁 on Oct 4, 2018 14:27:19 GMT -5
Beattys Speech
The Society Montag lives in
"The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere."
This quote shows the society Beatty and Montag live in is high speed and meaningless. Whilst in the past people spent their free time doing intellectual and productive activities the current society just looks for instant fulfilment and pleasure.
The Personification of the mind shows how it has devolved. Just as a person drinking water is vital for their survival this suggests the brains thirst for knowledge is essential and without the knowledge people and society are slowing down. Society slowing down has caused everyday life and activities to be 'dumbed down' peoples thirst for instant satisfaction has over taken their thirst for knowledge and improvement.
The highway full of crowds shows that being part of a group is everything and individuality is not accepted.The culture seems to have adopted utilitarianism which has lead to censorship and book burning,this was not necessarily unwelcome. The highway symbolises high speed life, high speed life encourages people living in that way not to think. The firemen burning books protect society from becoming too intellectual and stops any curiosity breeding. The education system in their society starts very early to stop any curiosity from a young age, people must all think in one way.
The Effect on Montag
After hearing Beattys speech Montag is now freely thinking and is no longer the governments mindless drone. He realises he is not happy and is fully questioning society. He longs to know why society rejects individuals like Clarisse. He is trying to figure out how an individual young girl like Clarisse can pose such a threat to society and the fireman purely by being curious.
The Society Montag lives in
"The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere."
This quote shows the society Beatty and Montag live in is high speed and meaningless. Whilst in the past people spent their free time doing intellectual and productive activities the current society just looks for instant fulfilment and pleasure.
The Personification of the mind shows how it has devolved. Just as a person drinking water is vital for their survival this suggests the brains thirst for knowledge is essential and without the knowledge people and society are slowing down. Society slowing down has caused everyday life and activities to be 'dumbed down' peoples thirst for instant satisfaction has over taken their thirst for knowledge and improvement.
The highway full of crowds shows that being part of a group is everything and individuality is not accepted.The culture seems to have adopted utilitarianism which has lead to censorship and book burning,this was not necessarily unwelcome. The highway symbolises high speed life, high speed life encourages people living in that way not to think. The firemen burning books protect society from becoming too intellectual and stops any curiosity breeding. The education system in their society starts very early to stop any curiosity from a young age, people must all think in one way.
The Effect on Montag
After hearing Beattys speech Montag is now freely thinking and is no longer the governments mindless drone. He realises he is not happy and is fully questioning society. He longs to know why society rejects individuals like Clarisse. He is trying to figure out how an individual young girl like Clarisse can pose such a threat to society and the fireman purely by being curious.