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    In Ray Bradbury’s allegorical novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ Guy Montag memorizes the Old Testament’s Ecclesiastes and the New Testament’s Revelation because he knows that he is not always going to physically have the books‚ which allows the author to allude to these books at the end by connecting them to the destroyed city. As it unfold in the novel‚ when Montag is running away from who he thought was the police “he dropped a book” (121). In this moment Montag knew that he could not go back and try to pick

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    “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries of more." (Bradbury 61). Ray Bradbury shows how the government in the world of Fahrenheit 451 keeps its citizens ’happy’‚ swaying them away from politics and negative things that they think might affect them in some way. "It was a pleasure to burn."(Bradbury 7). This is how Bradbury introduces Guy Guy and the life of a fireman‚ he describes what the job and life style of a fireman

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    SECTION A –(1) On one day‚ after watching the movie named “Fahrenheit 451” in the English class‚ I started to thinking about what we are calling happiness . I browsed the web and came across this quotation “ Happiness is a positive range of emotions that we feel when we are content or full of joy” ‚which is Cocacola ‘s definition . Then‚ I reminded of Beatty’s saying in the film ”Cram them full of noncombustible data‚ chock them so damned full full of facts they feel stuffed…then they’ll get

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    lives in‚ obviously it seems a little extreme to us but is it really so farfetched? The author came up with the idea of this book because there was once a time that book burning was happening more frequently in America. The title of the book‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ refers to the temperature at which books ignite‚ which I did not realize before reading the book. “Burning books—and in the past‚ their authors as well—that espouse hated ideas is perhaps the oldest form of censorship” (2). The author used this

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    Essay Professor Faber defines the value of books in Fahrenheit 451 because he is still an avid reader‚ has a collection of books‚ and aches to have more. Although he lives in a time where books are censored and considered ÒbadÓ‚ he still finds a way to pursue his true hobby which is reading. Faber believes that the current state of the society is due to people like him who are too afraid to speak out about the truth of burning books for pure pleasure. Quality is the measure of excellence

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    in 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 and how does being part of it affect the protagonists? The idea of a dystopian society is that of complete control‚ either through the use of a police state that has ultimate control over humanity and or the idea of man abusing technology to further gain control of its subjects. These ideas are very present in both novels. In 1984‚ the totalitarian state is technically and urbanely engineered to spy on and see people’s very thoughts. In Fahrenheit 451 a similar idea

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    delivered‚ it will not change man’s desire to express himself. The desire to be recognized and remembered for one’s literary work‚ as has been recognized to present‚ will transcend beyond this technological era. For example‚ In Fahrenheit 451‚ the protagonist Montag decides to be an outcast by "not burning books". This dystopian society believes literature can sway people’s thinking. This book portrays how literature survived because people wanted to know about the past and would

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    past‚ are future or are present Ray Bradbury author of the book Fahrenheit 451 Publishe over 50 years ago is misleading the book is set 50 years in the future but yet has no resemblance to are world today. All the government does is control and burn peoples knowledge. The dictionnary of reference quotes a fireman as being ‘’ A persone employed to extinguish or prevent fires‚ also referd as a firefighter’’ Aldo in the book Fahrenheit 451 the definition of a fireman is described as being someone who

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    1. What elements of dystopian literature are evident in Fahrenheit 451? A huge element of dystopian literature in Fahrenheit 451 is propaganda used to control the citizens of society. In the book‚ Montag escaped and found the college professors that are hiding out from the rest of society. After a long conversation he notices a portable TV and decides to watch TV to see the news. A few minutes into watching TV the announcers say “There’s Montag! The search is done”. It was a man walking on the street

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    Ray Bradbury puts motifs to represent and show the audience hints for what is going to happen. In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ Bradbury‚ they live in a society they live is against the law to read books and use your imagination. Bradbury uses motifs. Motifs are symbols that are repeated throughout the story. It shows objects represent things. For example he uses fire‚ mirrors‚ and both alive and death. Bradbury used quite of few motifs. But why does he use them? I think he uses them to show the reads

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