1º Reaction on Fahrenheit 451

One thing that I like from the book is the fact that the author criticizes many times the problem with society; a non-educated society where the government can impose anything and people obey.

An example of this is Mildred, she represents society. When she is with the script, talking to Montag, we can see that it is describing a consumer society, very empty. And at the same time, when Montag listens to one of Clarisse’s relatives talking about society also, it’s a perfect example of the criticism I was making reference to. “This is the age of the disposable tissue”, where you use something if it benefits you and then, you throw it away. A very selfish attitude, where they don’t notice the other person, but just use them for their own benefit.

This is the perfect type of society governors want: people who are selfish, who do not care about other person’s life, without own thoughts, without apprenticeship or education, so they can control them.

I think this topic in the book is really important because it is happening now, in our own country, where people (who are a considerable part of our society) does not have resources to have a proper education and as a result they are highly manipulated by powerful people. And we are part from that society, but luckily we can achieve to something more and it is not in us to change this situation, it has to come form our governors and mostly from those people’s eager to change and improve their situations. Otherwise, we would eternally have this problem and it has more and more bad consequences each day.

What we can do is just to be grateful and take advantage from what we have.