Bradbury once wrote: “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn” (104). Referring to the book in how everyone is blind and lost to what life really is. Bradbury originally wrote the novel, Fahrenheit 451 as a short story called “The Fireman” in 1950 in Galaxy Science Fiction; he later published it as a novel in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 is a book which proves technology can control a society because of how dependent Montag’s city is on it, which is illustrated by his choice to include a variety of literary techniques to help the reader grasp the novels true meaning
Bradbury conveys imagery to attract a much greater attention of the reader. He does this by using words like fire and running water. Bradbury wrote a passage describing how Montag was to never burn again: “He saw the moon low in the sky. The moon there, and the light of the moon caused by what?... After a long time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life” (140-141). In the full passage, Bradbury lacks verbs to make the nouns, for example moon and river, …show more content…
The last two stanzas of the poem had an impact on Mildred’s friend. From Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” he stated: “Ah love, let us be true to one another!... swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, where ignorance armies clash by night” (100). This particular stanza was read to Mildred’s friend causing her to cry and run out. Secondly, the poem sticks true to Montag’s life especially. Bradbury related the poem to the world Montag lives in: “[it] shows two lovers looking at what appears to be a happy world, but recognizing the essential emptiness that exists” (Sisarios). This evidence suggests how guy realizes the emptiness he holds, and seeks freedom following it. Thus saying, Bradbury uses this poem to connect many parts of the world in Fahrenheit 451 to Arnold’s
Bradbury conveys imagery to attract a much greater attention of the reader. He does this by using words like fire and running water. Bradbury wrote a passage describing how Montag was to never burn again: “He saw the moon low in the sky. The moon there, and the light of the moon caused by what?... After a long time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life” (140-141). In the full passage, Bradbury lacks verbs to make the nouns, for example moon and river, …show more content…
The last two stanzas of the poem had an impact on Mildred’s friend. From Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” he stated: “Ah love, let us be true to one another!... swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, where ignorance armies clash by night” (100). This particular stanza was read to Mildred’s friend causing her to cry and run out. Secondly, the poem sticks true to Montag’s life especially. Bradbury related the poem to the world Montag lives in: “[it] shows two lovers looking at what appears to be a happy world, but recognizing the essential emptiness that exists” (Sisarios). This evidence suggests how guy realizes the emptiness he holds, and seeks freedom following it. Thus saying, Bradbury uses this poem to connect many parts of the world in Fahrenheit 451 to Arnold’s