Fahrenheit 451, is a popular science fiction novel first published by Ray Bradbury in 1951. Fahrenheit 451 depicts a dystopian future society ruled by oppression.
Summary of Fahrenheit 451
Montag is a firefighter who assumes the duty of burning books, the only satisfying thing in this empty world. He has a wife named Mildred. He spends his time burning books and playing cards with his friends. He doesn’t think about his job or life, just like everyone else. Trapped in a life filled with capsules, mechanical hounds, televisions, and other technological devices.
This situation is turned very quickly when he meets his neighbor Clarisse. This peculiar girl leads a life unlike everyone else’s. She sits on the grass, looks at the sky, and most importantly, Clarisse questions things. Montag and others find her strange. Clarisse encourages Montag to think. When Montag thinks about what might be in those books, he becomes one of the few people who can escape being a puppet of the system. Despite his wife’s warnings, Montag supports books, and this means an endless questioning.
He hasn’t heard from Clarisse for a while. He immediately feels her absence and eventually learns of Clarisse’s death. This makes him even more interested in books. He feels a strong desire to get information from books. The only way is through books. Books don’t seem so bad to him after all.
Montag now really wants to read books instead of burning them. He has kept this secret well until he scares his neighbors with books, and no one except his old professor Faber and his wife knows about it. One day, his wife and her friends gathered, and Montag reads them a poem to prove that books are harmless. But everyone feels uncomfortable and everyone leaves except Montag. Mildred complains to the fire chief about Montag. Montag resists to who wants to burn his house and escapes by burning him with a hose. After a while, Montag starts to think that he is just walking without purpose and appears at Faber’s.
Montag now has to escape because a mechanically adept dog capable of smelling him is looking for him. He doesn’t want to risk Faber and starts moving towards the river with Faber’s address. Following the river, he finds a group of people who are also escaping like him. He decides to move with them. Meanwhile, the police lose track of him and kill an innocent man, broadcasting it on television as if he were Montag. Now Montag is a dead man.
Meanwhile, a war breaks out in the city. The group informing each other gains more knowledge, and they return to the city to try to save the remaining people from the war.
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