Fahrenheit 451 Literary Analysis

The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury revolves around a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century, Guy Montage. It introduces a new world in which is mostly controlled by the mass of media, and the censorship has taken over the general population. The individual in that society is not accepted by the government and the retaining knowledge is now considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common family time like talking to each other to playing a board game. In that society every home has a large screen tv(parlor walls) mainly used for entertainment and governmental propaganda.The houses have now been fireproofed meaning the firemen job doesn't apply anymore. However, firemen have been given a new occupation to burn books …show more content…
For example, Montage meets a professor name Faber who states “They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue , 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal...The things you're looking for, Montage, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book”(82)Bradbury. Faber describes the books as Caesar's praetorian guard because books provide the reader with knowledge and understanding. Like the books the praetorian guard provided the emperor of Rome with protection and was a form of bodyguards made up of the highest ranking guards in all of Rome. The books and the guards are similar because their jobs are to protect in their own ways, whether it be a physical form of protection or a mental protection which allows the forming of a personal opinion. Caesar's praetorian guard is an important allusion because it shows the true importance of books. Books give the reader an answer to their problems, a new knowledge of a topic, and allows the reader to form opinions and an understanding that without books would be possible to experience on your