2007년 2월 13일 화요일

Farenheit 451-#2

- are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? what are they, and how do they relate? does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

Farenheit 451 is the book with extreme drawing of our current world.
The book describes how people begins to lose rooms for literature because of busy lives.
The cars, bill boards, and entertainment walls, things that were invented to make our lives easier start to make people forget about the books and later, even ban them. It is very simlilar to our present world, where everyting goes fast that we actually cannot focus or concentrate on one thing. Like chanracters in the book, we often rely on internet and TV to get knowledge and information than reading a book.
The author gives solution through out the book, which is people in the world having affection for books and finding the needs of them again. Other than that, he gave the message saying, people recognizing the problem should courageously stand up in the society and fix it, rather than keeping silence. The author emphasize how minorities can change and fix the world. For example, the death of the woman might seem useless, but eventually it influenced the other person: Mintag. Montag, in the end of the book, joins the minorities who know the importance of the book, and goes on the journey the spread knowledge.
Also, the book shows how people's envy and sense of inferiority toward the group of minorities who are intelligent than others, can lead to banning of the books. The minorities in the book include people with more knowledge and insight than others.
Both in the book and in the world we are living in, people view them strange and dangerous.
It is the perfect example of communist countries, such as North Korea.
The limitation for people might be linear, as they can read books with Socialist Realism, which is glorifying the idea of communism and saying only positive sides of it.
However, the two worlds are similar in the end, because government doesnot want people to see the truth about what is right and what is wrong; and they limit your knowledge, while punishing the minorities.
The author keep mentions the animosity toward knowledge and attempts to make world equal, can bore a disasterous result in the end.

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Hey~~
Wow. You have an excellent insight into the author's message! In addition to your insight on the light that the author shed, I also believe that the author shed light on the liberty that people actually have and the responsibility that they need to have over that freedom.We have the freedom to think for ourself, and therefore, we have the obligation to do something with that and expand it through knowledge.
However, I don't think people forgot books because of technology, I think people created technology because they forgot about books. It is stated that society has gone to such extreme that people, afraid to think, have decided to get rid of books(which cause "dangerous" thinking), and let the government think for them. Therefore, books were already gone befor they became so heavily reliant on technology...or least that's what I think;;;
Great analysis!! :D

African Globe Trotters. :

Exactly right! Mrs.Mc.