Essay About Happy People In Fahrenheit 451

Imagine a world where books were illegal and burned by fireman along with fun being the focus and cure to everything. This was the horrid life of the people in California during 1954. The people in Fahrenheit 451 seem to be happy, but are unsatisfied with themselves deep inside showing that in order to be truly happy people need to be able to think on their own. Fahrenheit 451 shows the government telling the people what to think and causing people to not know how to make themselves happy because they did not have to think for themselves. Evidence to support this is, “"You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow” (Bradbury 23-24). This quote is from Clarisse McClellan, who is of the few who know how to think for themselves and was talking to Guy Montag at the time. Which means that she does not think Guy should be a fireman even though that’s what he’s been doing for the past ten years and claimed to …show more content…
This quote is, "All of those chemical balances and percentages on all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs. It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound's ‘memory,’ a touch of amino acids, perhaps. That would account for what the animal did just now. Reacted toward me” (Bradbury 26). This is very interesting because if all living creatures are really made of the same substances, then if society gives an artificial creature that is made up of the same substances and then some amino acids, will it be able to react the same way as humans and other natural creatures? Would it become as intelligent as humans? Also, if we’re so similar then what’s stopping other living animals from becoming more intelligent, and what makes humans so special? Why are humans so special compared to other animals if we’re all made up of the same