Fahrenheit 451 Freedom Struggle Essay

Struggle: Needed to Achieve Freedom How much Freedom do we actually have? To answer this we first must answer what it means to be free. Merman-Webster Dictionary said that free means “Not physically held by something,” they defined freedom as “The absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.” In other words it means people aren’t forced to do something, that people have the right to speak up and pursue their dreams. From this definition it is evident that, for the most part, America is free, but what about the other countries? How do they get their freedom? Most would say it is a struggle. The struggle for freedom is evident in text such as Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream.” Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit …show more content…
Books such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In Bradbury's novel he shows many examples of oppression. However the fight or struggle for freedom can be seen when Granger says “We’re going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look at them” (Bradbury 164). Though it may not be as obvious as the example before it Montag and his group are fighting against their oppression. They are doing this by using knowledge and remembering. This is an example of how people can struggle for freedom in a nontraditional …show more content…
For example when Kennedy says in his speech “Martin Luther King dedicated his life to his love and for the justice of his fellow human beings, and he died because of this effort” (Kennedy 1). This quote shows how you can not achieve peace without pain. Martin Luther King never sat around and waited for freedom to come to him. He fought and demanded for it. If not for him struggling and fighting for equal rights we might not have the civil rights we do today. This is a central theme we can see in all of these stories. If you want something you have to work and fight for it, only then can you truly achieve