Several days pass since Montag's last meeting with Clarisse. Because of this brief encounter, Montag realizes that the Hound doesn't like him, a point that he quickly points out to his fellow fireman, Captain Beatty. He enters the fire station and immediately encounters the Mechanical Hound, who actually growls at him. On his way to work, Montag again encounters Clarisse and is left pondering things like the taste of rain and what dandelions represent. Montag, though frustrated and confused about what happened the previous night, heads off to work. She avoids Montag's questions and instead focuses on the new script she has received for an interactive television program. The next morning, Montag attempts to discuss what happened the night before, but his wife is uninterested in any type of discussion. He calls the emergency squad, and the strangers come with their machine to save his wife. He discovers that his wife Mildred (Millie), whether intentionally or unintentionally, has overdosed on the pills. Montag enters his bedroom to find an empty bottle of sleeping pills lying on the floor next to his bed. Upon entering his home, however, her image is quickly erased. Her inquisitive nature fascinates him because she ponders things such as happiness, love, and, more importantly, the contents of the books that he burns.Īt first, Montag tries to ignore her questions, but on the rest of his walk home, he cannot get the young girl out of his mind. She is young, pretty, and energetic, but more importantly, she converses with him about things that he has never considered. Clarisse is the antithesis of anyone Montag has ever met. Montag, a fireman who destroys books for a living, is walking home from work one day when the young Clarisse approaches him and introduces herself. The story begins with an inciting incident in which Montag meets Clarisse McClellan. Ray Bradbury introduces this new world through the character Guy Montag, the protagonist, during a short time in his life. The people live in a world with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past the population receives the present from television. Books are considered evil because they make people question and think. The fireman is now seen as a flamethrower, a destroyer of books rather than an insurance against fire. Television has replaced the common perception of family. The individual is not accepted and the intellectual is considered an outlaw. Fahrenheit 451 fits squarely into this dystopian literary tradition.Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 introduces a new world in which control of the masses by the media, overpopulation, and censorship has taken over the general population. Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, are among the most-read dystopian novels and short stories of the past century. Rather than create ideal societies meant to serve as models for improvement, authors instead created dystopias, or nightmare societies, designed to sound a warning about modern society's problems. In the 20th century, fictionalized societies frequently took on a darker, oppressive aspect. Edward Bellamy, writing at the end of the 19th century, imagined an ideal future society in Looking Backward: 2000–1887. Plato's Republic is one of the earliest and best-known utopias, while Sir Thomas More's sixteenth century work Utopia gives the genre its name. Some authors have created utopias, or ideal states, with the intention to show how civilization might be improved. Many authors have created states and societies in their works of fiction and philosophy.
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