There are people that represent enlightenment and also bring enlightenment to their communities but there are people that oppose them because they think they are harming their society. For example, when people have something important to talk about that might compromise the government or the country they either don't hear them out or they act like everything's okay. Similarly in the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character Guy Montag is a firefighter in his civilization, his job is to start fires instead of putting out fires, but later on he realizes how wrong it was. This nation has been manipulated by the government for the past decades, they show and teach the community what they want them to believe. Although Montag …show more content…
For instance, when Montag and Mildred are talking about the neighbors Mildred says, “Whole family moved out somewhere. But she's gone for good. I think she's dead” (Bradbury 47) When Mildred says she's gone for good it implies that she didn't really care about her so this helps Montag realize that Mildred doesn't really have emotions for anybody and she only cares about herself. Another thing that really bothers Montag at that moment is when she starts saying that she forgot that it was four day ago and she never told him about her death. It also makes think that when something happens to him she is not really going to care, she has no emotions. Also, when Montag and Betty are conversating about Clarisse, Betty says, “That poor girls better off dead/ luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often” Betty implies that Clarisse deserved to die because she was to knowledgeable and she asked too many questions that contradicted the government. He states that there are not many girls like her that seek change and destruction of their civilization. In this civilization if you were to knowledgeable you were seen as a threat and you were quickly