Ecclesiastes

The book of Ecclesiastes talks about the meaninglessness of things in the world. In "Fahrenheit 451" the people's lives are meaningless. They are all so content with walching the walls in their parlors or burning books that they aren't striving oching for anything more in the world, they don't have hopes and dreams. The few who do search and strive for any meaning in their lives look for it in books, but they are punished for this by having their books burned in their own fireproof house if they are caught. Now, Guy Montag, one of the firemen who's job is to burn people's books, is beginning to search for meaning in his life and during his search he discovers that his job is a big thing that is destroying the meaning in the world. One specific topic that is mentioned in Ecclesiastes is how, "Wisdom is meaningless". Which, it seems in "Fahrenheit 451" that the firemen are almost fighting wisdom. Because a lot books are filled with a lot of wisdom. and that's exactly what they're out to eliminate.