Topic > Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Ray's Fahrenheit 451...

The most powerful motivation is greed and it can only be stopped with proper mediators, but they must not get too excited and behave foolishly otherwise their cause it will become too large to consume. Great ideas for good causes take time, and caveats must be kept in mind, no matter how necessary it is for the plan to be realized. Even though the world of a dystopian society is absolutely horrific, no government is ever overthrown easily. The exempt people of such societies, who call themselves leaders, lead as decadent a life as they can when they choose the lives of others. In “Burning Bright,” the third part of Fahrenheit 451, Beatty says, “Old Montag wanted to fly close to the sun and now that he's burned his damn wings, he wonders why.” This allusion demonstrates that Guy Montag and Kurt Vonnegut's title character, "Harrison Bergeron", both suffered like Icarus because they did not heed the warnings. In Fahreinheit 415, Montag was warned to stay away from books and expressive thinking while being watched by the mechanical machine. hound. The hound sniffed books and was monitored by firefighters to keep the streets safe from anyone reading literature. This means that the hound definitely didn't like a character like Montag and this hatred made Montag a suspect in his flickering neon green-blue eyeballs. Montag smelled the alert dog when "The Hound half rose in his kennel and looked at him... He growled again, a strange hoarse combination of electric sizzle..." (23). Montag, interested in the hound, touched its muzzle and received an irritated response. Surprised by the hound's reaction, Montag said, “'No, no, boy,' [with] his heart pounding. He saw the silver needle extend an inch into the air, retreat, extend, retreat. The growl boils over... middle of paper... hush, hush!' It was a plea, such a terrible cry… from this man with the crazy, sated face, the dry, gibbering mouth, the book flapping in his fist” (75). Montag and Bergeron have lost care for the shackles both societies have placed on them, their motivation becoming too much to repress. The possibility of letting go of all handicaps was so vulnerable that waiting one more second seemed impossible. However, their main flaw was when they were stubborn and didn't listen to the warnings that Beatty gave to Montag or Diana Moon Glampers gave to Bergeron. So when they took flight, their intentions were good, but when they flew too high they lost all support. Works Cited Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperback, 2013. Print.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., “Harrison Bergeron,” Welcome to the Monkey House (New York: Dell Publishing, 1968)