When it comes to Fahrenheit 451 there is a part that goes with “We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing”. While reading Fahrenheit 451 the people aren’t completely happy when it comes to life, although they think they are. One aspect that Bradbury might be defining happiness as the idea of knowledge. When it comes to the idea of Happiness it is said that it might be defined as knowledge but such an idea in Fahrenheit 451 because Bradbury says that “something’s missing” to be happy and the only thing that is missing in the futuristic society that is Fahrenheit 451 are books which lead to the expansion of knowledge. This knowledge leads people to think for themselves in the aspect of what they want not what the society tells them to want and that way they can find happiness and what makes them happy by themselves, instead of being programmed to think they are happy when they really are not. It seems that people are not happy and which is easily told when Mildred tried to kill herself and it can also be questioned if Chief Beatty also let himself be killed by Guy Montag. If they were allowed to have books and learn facts of life from them they would be able to make better worldly choices and think for themselves when it comes to the government
controlling them.
This concept of happiness is a new concept, because in the time the novel was written and nowadays happiness is generally not defined that way. People nowadays say they are happy when they have material objects such as cars, gadgets, and accessories and it seems like time and time again there are few people that consider knowledge happiness at all. Along with the idea that many people in our world do consider happiness being with others and sharing happiness with other people. It is easy to see while reading this book that Bradbury warns us that if we don’t pay attention to what is taking place in our own time and learn from it and learn for it and not just pay attention to too much on material objects then our society will become similar to the society in that we read about in...
