Sheltered Societies
...much difficulty. The characters and the overall message of the stories are akin. In both stories the idea of a sheltered society is portrayed. Also, both stories have a strong willed character prepared to loose everything for what he believes.
Guy Montag and Reverend Moore are very similar in character in that they both make drastic changes in their beliefs throughout the two stories. At the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Montag is a strong believer in the government and its system of banning and burning books. One major character that helps to alter his viewpoint of the authorities is Mildred. She helps him realize how ignorant and detached their society truly is. She shows him this multiple times. For example, Guy asks her about the first time they met and she told him that it didn't matter. You're wife should be able to tell you something of that significance and he noticed that she couldn't. She also was constantly wearing her sea shells in her ears. She would prefer to listing to nothingness than have a good conversation with her husband. She proves to him that technology is more important than books and that she is completely dependent
on technology. An example of this is when she tells him that "Books aren't people'. . . My family' is people'" (Bradbury, 74). She is completely manipulated, brainwashed and controlled by the government. He sees this and does everything in his power to do something to change it. He tries to smuggle books into their house and attempts to convince her that there is something of significance in them. He also slowly begins to cease to trust the government. He becomes more and more paranoid about their involvement in his life and the lives of everyone around him. He illustrates his extreme modifications in his beliefs by planning to illegally publish books with the help of Faber. He also shows this by...
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