Examples Of Imagery In Fahrenheit 451

No matter your hair color, nationality, sex, or age we are all naturally curious. We have the need to always be searching for a better idea and more attainable solutions to our questions. In America, we are lucky to have the freedom of speech and the freedom of free thinking. Some societies on the other hand persuade their people to be simple minded. The famous fiction writer, Ray Bradbury creates a similar world in his famous novel, Fahrenheit 451. Ray published a short story titled “The Firemen” in 1950 for the publication Galaxy Science Fiction which later transitioned into, Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451 is a famous novel that interprets literary elements to foreshadow what Bradbury predicts will happen in the future.
Bradbury opens up his book with “it was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world”(Bradbury 1). Bradbury does an exceptional job portraying visual imagery to his audience. It leads into asserting you the type of firemen Montag is. Going off of the visual imagery, Bradbury also does a great job depicting auditory imagery which lets the reader hear what’s going on. “The little mosquito- delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest. The music was almost loud enough so he could follow the tune.” (Bradbury 36). Bradbury wanted you to feel like you could hear everything that was going on during that specific time period. Concluding in Bradburys vivid imagery technique, he also used olfactory imagery when Montag meets his neighbors for the first time. “They walked in the warm cool blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the finest smell of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air, and he looked around and realized it was quite impossible so late in the year.” (Bradbury 4). Bradbury models sense and smell thorough textual evidence so you feel like you are in the book. Imagery plays a big role in
In Bradbury’s fictional world, authority doesn’t care about you. “Ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don’t care as long as they are insured” (Bradbury 48). This quote goes into detail at the end that shows the way the police feel about people breaking the law. They don’t care as long as it doesn’t cause them trouble in the long run. Secondly is when they go into great depth about them treating ill patient, or patients that are attempting to commit suicide. “Standing over her, not bent with concern but standing straight, arms folded. And he remembered thinking then if she died, he certainly wouldn’t cry.” (Bradbury 57). The doctors in Bradbury’s novel don’t show much emotion toward their patients anymore because in his novel everyone is ill and everyone is attempting suicide because they are so depressed and don’t know what to do with themselves anymore. Bradbury also goes into great detail explaining how the characters are all absorbed in their own lives. “It has been a long time since anyone as cared to ask, nobody listens