A Comparison of Fahrenheit 451 and Dover Beach Essay -- Ray Bradburys

     Fahrenheit 451 is a well-written book that tells a story of a dream humankind and one man who wakes up from that dream. Montag, the protagonist of the story, brings home a book of poetry one day and begins to read the poem Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold to his wife and her guests. Many critics conceptualise that Bradbury picked this poem beca riding habit it paralleled life in his book. The poem Dover Beach can be comp ared to Fahrenheit 451 because some(prenominal) pieces of writing talk about themes of true love, trick and allover hopelessness.     One of the modes Fahrenheit 451 can be related to Arnolds Dover Beach is by connecting the absense of true love in both of them. Throughout the book, Montag slowly realizes that he does not truly love his wife Mildred. In the beginning, Montag believes that he truly loves Mildred. However, as the book goes on, he meets Clarisse, and begins to change his way of thought. He slowly begins t o wake up from the dream world that he is living in. As he begins to know Clarisse, he slowly realizes that Mildred does not piece of ground the same deep passion for life that he does. At the beginning of the Sieve and the Sand, Montag frantically reads books to gain more knowledge. Mildred complains and kicks the books around, showing that her and her husband are evolution apart. At the end of the book, Montag is talking to Granger, and says "... Even if she dies, I realized a moment ago, I dont think Ill feel sad (155)". This shows that Montag does not care for his wife as lots as he thought he did before. In the poem, Arnold states "a land of dreams ...hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light". The world in Arnolds poem is a land of dreaming. While people are dreaming of true love and joy, there is none in the real world that you make out in once you wake up from the dream. Once the confused alarms of struggle and flight wake you up, you realize that the w orld is really void of love and happiness. The world in Arnolds poem is a world parallel to that of Bradburys both are worlds that do not contain love or light, as much as people in them would like to believe otherwise.     Both Fahrenheit 451 and Dover Beach are pieces of writing that deal with lands of fantasy. The true world that Bradbury lived in enchantment writing Fahrenheit 451 was one of real books that peop... ...e, because the laws of the universe dont let it out. Similarly, the hopelessness of the human race is shown through the fact that it goes through its life cycles, yet globe know what theyre doing and try to fix it. Even though it does not work, that is their cry for help, just as the Sea of Faith cries out to be released from its tides.     Writers often use other works in their books to back up what their writing is trying to prove. Ray Bradbury uses the fancys in the poem Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold to support the ide a that his book shows the absence of true love, the existence of fantasy worlds, and the reality of hopelessness. Both the book and the poem show that the world is a land of fantasy where things are not always as they appear, and that as much as they want to do something, the nature of people can hold us back from doing things. Both Dover Beach and Fahrenheit 451 show worlds of beings that are trapped in a cage and forced to live a certain way, as much as they dont want to. As much as human beings today dont believe this can happen, if we give into the natural way of humans, we may just constitute the same path that Bradburys people did.