Rebellion And The Dark Side Of Technology  

Rebellion is one of the most themes that mostly make an appearance in the novel by using personification to strengthen Ray Bradbury’s point of rebellion. In the beginning, Montag loved to be a fireman but as time grew on he had grown sick on the smell like two parts of him were fighting to do the right thing and stopping. Montag likes to do his job but as he thought possibly being a fireman is wrong and he wants to do something right. Ray Bradbury expresses Montag’s halves fighting each other ”He felt his body divide its self into a hotness and coldness, a softness and hardness, a trembling and not trembling, the two halves grinding ” (21). Montag does not know this feeling of fighting his self to see which is the better option, which can he chose, what side is the best to fight for. Should he speak his mind or not to speak his mind he was lead by fear of getting killed or hunted by the government he does not know which side to take Bradbury uses personification of ” he felt his body divide” to give a better explanation.

As a fireman, they need to start fires and burn the book if they find someone to owns them they take them if not they let them burn along with the books. Ray Bradbury interprets the kerosene as deathly ”with the brass nozzle at his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head”(3). As to using personification ”with the brass nozzle at his fists” to give better strength to understand better the way the kerosene smells and that it destroys everything that has life and Montag is controlling it. Montag did not find this something that he should do and fight for his freedom and not in shackles. Bradbury uses personification to express his theme of rebellion to have people fight with themselves to do the right thing and clash with their own thoughts to do the best. Montag has fought with himself to make up his mind in order to get a better state of mind and think.

Television is a big part of people’s life and fills people’s minds with a false imagination or frame of mind which then leads the people to have an unstable mental mind by using a metaphor. The people in the city think that reading will give them a sense of the society that is more ugly which people think that he or she resides in a perfect life. Ray Bradbury declares that people are up most scared ”so now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. ”(83) The government wants people to think that they live in a perfect world and that there is nothing bad in their society. Using the dark side of technology to give a sense of false happiness in the world so they don't see threw the government’s lies. Everyone thinks that they are happy and content with their life, in reality, he or she is depressed and suicidal. Where Montag takes a chance to fix the mistakes that he has done. Ray Bradbury puts ”books can get us half out of the cave. They might form making the same damn insane mistakes!”(74) Using a metaphor to strengthing the thought of how technology affects people Mildred, Montag’s wife lives happily with technology which Montag is tired of people being ignorant. Which contrasts the differences between them and how they see their society. Ray Bradbury uses these to strengthen the thought of how technology has been inflicting its people to think that they are happy about their society.

Their society is a very controlling society that is controlled by fear and society until Montag fights in order to bring back life and color to the world and by using a simile Ray Bradbury uses to help the theme of rebellion. Since the beginning, Montag has been stealing books that had given him a sense of knowledge that he now knows what kind of knowledge they hold. He now knows why the government banned books which he hides from his Capitan. Ray Bradbury points out,” his fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested always stirred and pick and hid in pockets, moving from under Beattys alcoholic-flame gaze”(101) Using a simile Ray Bradbury does take this statement that he goes against his government as perusing his hands for all the evil things that he has caused in order to have his freedom. While on the run he escapes and meets people beyond his city and discovers a new society that old people that were chased out escaped. Since those people read they have the information in their head to remember and create new books. Ray Bradbury overlooks ”we must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal [. . . ] then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against”(55) By using allusion Ray Bradbury by pointing out the constitution is how the government came to be. That people were able to think like one another also that people depend on technology. Ray Bradbury uses both simile and allusion to have his point go through people’s minds and emphasizes his theme of rebellion.