Friday, May 25, 2007
How Sheltered can you possibly be?
And so the story continues. As it goes on, it continues to increase in it's dramatics, one part of the story that sticks with me the most, is when Guy Montag questions his wife, about something so special and so simple, when they first met. However, Mildred cannot remember and this makes me wonder if maybe people are so sheltered from reality and their emotions, that they cannot even remember happy memories. Mildred, along with all of her female friends that we meet a little bit farther on in the tale, all seem to be so empty inside, like all of the human senses and emotions have been sucked right out of them. This also makes me wonder if books are, in fact, what keep us so alert and so full of the emotions that we all express daily. Can books really be such a large part of our lives that without them, and without all of the history and discoveries and tales of our fellow men, we will in fact become zombies? Robots even? Without books, existance is only what you allow it to be, and in Farenheit 451, existance is only in a three walled room.
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Italia, you wonder if people are so sheltered they can't remember memories, even happy ones. Then you mention that existence in F451 is only in a three-walled room. Very insightful. It raises a question about our own reality. It seems like in F451 the government - or some force - wants people's realities to be confined to the three walls. It would be so much easier to control people like this, wouldn't it?
How in our own time do we isolate ourselves from reality, and put ourselves in three-walled rooms? Who then has control of what we think? Maybe that's why books are so important? They open up new realities for us and even help us understand our own lives. That's powerful stuff.
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