Fahrenheit 451 Happiness Analysis

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What is the True Meaning of Happiness? In modern society, people’s live lead to success through logic and critical thinking. Hard working people strive to complete their challenging goals. Once the completion of a goal, that person gains an immeasurable amount of happiness that no tv show, food, or accessory could give them. But that isn’t the case in the distant dystopian city of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This dystopia is set in a world where society and the government disregard anything that they think stops people from obtaining “happiness” which leads to Montag questioning the life he has been living in under a pretension. Society wants to be able to have an effortless and clear-cut pleasure without any perplexing topics and ideals that would make them question the logic behind them. Beatty talks about the public’s attention span and to feed them “Non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed. Then …show more content…
As Guy Montag was listening to his wife’s friends talk about their husbands, Mrs.Phelps was talking about her husband in the war and if something were to happen to him “If I get killed off, you go right ahead and don’t cry, but get married again, and don’t think of me” (91). Mrs.Phelps doesn’t even want to try to question why she shouldn’t mourn for her husband if he dies during the war and just move on to marry another man. This suggests that Mrs.Phelps can find another “Peter” in case the real Peter dies in the war, making him feel like he is replaceable such as replacing a broken vase with a brand new one. In another instance of the people being cold, Montag and Millie were having a conversation about the old women burning in the house while protecting her precious books, Millie responds, “She’s nothing to me, she shouldn’t have had books. It was her responsibility, she
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