'A Review Of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451'
Tianhao Li
Mr. Lambert
English 28
11 March 2014 A review of Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic novel, telling the story of a time where books and independent thinking are outlawed. In a time so unenlightened, where those who want to better themselves by thinking, are outlawed and killed. In the future where people don’t have rights to read and are modeled to think, nearly like robots. Their mind is dominated by the society so everyone is brainwashed. Happiness is supreme goal of government. Books and ideas are destroyed, books are incinerated, where as ideas thinking becomes a danger to society and is not tolerated. Censorship and its effect to the world is the heart of the book, it is the most important …show more content…
They both represent fire. A hearth is traditionally symbolize home, the salamander is the officially symbol of firemen and fire place. Fahrenheit 451 has a dominant image - fire, where there is a book, there is a fire burning. The symbol is an irony to the life in the book, it implies the ruins causing by fire has expanded not only at home but also in the entire society. Mildred’s sleeping bill is the evidence that the insane world has changed or even damaged home and it is intending to ruin the whole human world. Moreover, Mildred’s betrayal to Montag – she tells firemen that Montag has hide some books at home and started to read them, is also ironic to the “home fire”- hearth, fire has burnt not only books but also people’s mind, for the less communication with others, they do not even know which is right and cannot think up their own …show more content…
And it looks like we are doing the same thing, over and over.” After the bombing of the city, Granger compared human to a phoenix, a bird builds a pyre and burns himself up every few hundred years. Unlike phoenix, we know the silly thing we just did and we will sometimes stop making such a stupid thing again. Remember the mistakes of the past and trying to skip them as long as they are around us as a threat. The Phoenix also symbolizes the rebirth of Montag after he sees the death of old woman and talking with Clarissa. The rebuild of civilization after the war shows a new birth of the phoenix, the society begins to rediscover itself. In a word, the symbol of phoenix is not only the cyclical nature of history but also the rebirth of a new spirit of
Mr. Lambert
English 28
11 March 2014 A review of Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic novel, telling the story of a time where books and independent thinking are outlawed. In a time so unenlightened, where those who want to better themselves by thinking, are outlawed and killed. In the future where people don’t have rights to read and are modeled to think, nearly like robots. Their mind is dominated by the society so everyone is brainwashed. Happiness is supreme goal of government. Books and ideas are destroyed, books are incinerated, where as ideas thinking becomes a danger to society and is not tolerated. Censorship and its effect to the world is the heart of the book, it is the most important …show more content…
They both represent fire. A hearth is traditionally symbolize home, the salamander is the officially symbol of firemen and fire place. Fahrenheit 451 has a dominant image - fire, where there is a book, there is a fire burning. The symbol is an irony to the life in the book, it implies the ruins causing by fire has expanded not only at home but also in the entire society. Mildred’s sleeping bill is the evidence that the insane world has changed or even damaged home and it is intending to ruin the whole human world. Moreover, Mildred’s betrayal to Montag – she tells firemen that Montag has hide some books at home and started to read them, is also ironic to the “home fire”- hearth, fire has burnt not only books but also people’s mind, for the less communication with others, they do not even know which is right and cannot think up their own …show more content…
And it looks like we are doing the same thing, over and over.” After the bombing of the city, Granger compared human to a phoenix, a bird builds a pyre and burns himself up every few hundred years. Unlike phoenix, we know the silly thing we just did and we will sometimes stop making such a stupid thing again. Remember the mistakes of the past and trying to skip them as long as they are around us as a threat. The Phoenix also symbolizes the rebirth of Montag after he sees the death of old woman and talking with Clarissa. The rebuild of civilization after the war shows a new birth of the phoenix, the society begins to rediscover itself. In a word, the symbol of phoenix is not only the cyclical nature of history but also the rebirth of a new spirit of