Allusions In Fahrenheit 451

Since the beginning, fire has been only known as destruction and despair. This seems to be true until Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 45, which has a perspective on fire being not just destruction but also warmth in a of world censorship that has gone out of touch with its human counterparts through its use of technology. Bradbury originally wrote this novel, Fahrenheit 451, as a short story called" The Firemen" in 1950 in galaxy science fiction; he later published it as a novel in 1953. A well renowned author, Ray Bradbury wrote one of his premier pieces Fahrenheit 451, a novel that puts a focus on a society where the government has put a censorship on book reading, and has a problem with overuse of technology, which many people today worry
Through allusions Bradbury creates a world in which book burning has become a centerpiece in the 24th century society. Allusions can bring the past to the present with the power to change societal views: “noting specifically the literary and Biblical allusions, we see a deeper message in the novel than simply the warning that our society is headed for intellectual stagnation. The literary are used to underscore the emptiness of the twenty-fourth century, and the Biblical Allusions point subtly toward a solution to help us of our intellectual “Dark Age”” (Sisario). This evidence suggests that the allusions used were not only to tell the underlying story that the society is heading for destruction, but it also shows the solutions there are able to end the "intellectual stagnation" (Sisario). Allusions like the phoenix brings the idea that the 24th century could burn itself like the phoenix, but it is also able to resurrect itself to begin anew from its mistakes: "Through the persona of Granger, Bradbury expresses the hope that mankind might use his intellect and his knowledge of his own intellectual and physical destruction to keep from going through endless cycles of disintegration and rebirth" (Sisario). From this evidence, Bradbury is able to cling onto the idea that intelligence is the key to end the "endless cycles" of the 24th century. From the Biblical allusions Bradbury implores, he is able to show in the end, no matter what the damage, God will take care of everything. The only plausible solution for the 24th century was God: " Saint Matthew's parable of the Lilies illustrates that god take care of all things and we need not worry; the Lilies don’t work or worry, yet god provides for them" (Sisario). The evidence is suggesting that the only solution for this dystopian society is from the help of God and how he will take care of