This book addresses the inward battle that everyone faces against living a life of integrity versus living a life of laziness. In the book Fahrenheit 451, the culture of the people is extremely lazy. The people take the easy route by only living for themselves. They sit all day and watch television and they do not spend time with their families. They burn all of the things that they are too afraid to face, and they do not have to work hard for anything.
It is so easy to fall into the trap of living a shallow life and only worrying about yourself, and it seems that the author really understands that about human nature and he shows the daily inward battle that we face of integrity versus laziness.
I think the theme of this book is fighting for character. It takes a lot of effort to go the extra mile to do things to help others that you do not really want to help. It takes a lot of effort to truly be concerned of the well being of others over the well being of yourself. It also takes a lot of effort to fight for what you think is right and to live a life of character and live how you want to be.
The author really portrayed this theme by sharing thoughts, actions and daily life scenarios of Guy Montag, the main character of the book. Montag consistently had to make character choices throughout the entire book. He had to choose to listen to his instincts or to listen to his authorities. From what I have found, that is always a very tricky thing to do and it is a tough decision because you need to respect your authorities but not if they are being sinful. It is often a tough line to decipher when dealing with sinful authorities.
I believe that the author of Fahrenheit 451 had much experience on his topic of writing, and did a very good job portraying the theme.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Print.
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