Guy Montag is a firefighter. His goal is to destroy the most unlawful of goods, the printed book, as well as the places where it is stored. Montag never challenges the devastation and ruin his actions cause, instead returning to his mundane existence and wife, Mildred, who spends her days with her television "family."
But when he meets Clarisse, an eccentric young neighbor, who exposes him to a history in which people did not live in dread and a present in which one sees the world through the ideas in books rather than the mindless babble of television, Montag begins to doubt all he has ever known.
Fahrenheit 451 is a famous dystopian novel set in a post-literate future, standing alongside Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic description of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, narcotics, and conformity.
My Rating: ★★★★
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