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, attract a greater attention. He also uses repetition of the same words to create the emphasis of burning. Following this, Bradbury uses image cluster to create imagery. In Fahrenheit 451 the use of the same word happens repeatedly, for example: “The word sun is used 6 times, burning 5 times, moon 5 times, and time 4 times” (Reid). One cluster with the word time is paralleled with the sun to show how time is burning away just like the sun is. The last reason this claim is true is Bradbury’s use of symbolic dystopia. Bradbury connects his ideas and thoughts with symbols throughout the book: He uses images associated with our senses connected to the important characters and events in the book. The images used create a symbolic dystopia (Watt). When Bradbury uses the word fire as imagery he creates the symbol of fire being both negative and positive. Summing up, imagery is used in forms like symbolism, description, and word clusters to gain attention. Bradbury offers allusion to reveal the meaning of the phoenix that Beatty and the firemen wear. The phoenix is mentioned throughout the book, not just what is shown on Beatty’s hat. In the book the phoenix is on the firemen’s coats and has meaning: “The famous myth which alludes to the rebirth of mankind after their destruction” (156). This evidence suggests that what the firemen do is rebirthing everyone from the illegal act of reading that they do. The phoenix also refers to the idea of the natural cycle. The idea of the natural cycle is shown through the character Granger: The phoenix periodically burned itself to death and resurrected from its ashes to restored youth. Granger expresses his hope that mankind won’t do the same thing (Sisario). This alludes to how mankind is basically physically destructing itself and coming back repeatedly. Hence the phoenix once again, it has an alternate meaning between Beatty and Montag. In Fahrenheit 451 Beatty’s death is symbolic: “Beatty is burned to death by fire and illustrates the rebirth of Montag as he joins Granger on a new intellectual life” (Sisario). Essentially Beatty was like the phoenix towards Montag, giving him a rebirthed new life. All in all, the phoenix was one of the biggest allusions used throughout the book. In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury compares the …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, attract a greater attention. He also uses repetition of the same words to create the emphasis of burning. Following this, Bradbury uses image cluster to create imagery. In Fahrenheit 451 the use of the same word happens repeatedly, for example: “The word sun is used 6 times, burning 5 times, moon 5 times, and time 4 times” (Reid). One cluster with the word time is paralleled with the sun to show how time is burning away just like the sun is. The last reason this claim is true is Bradbury’s use of symbolic dystopia. Bradbury connects his ideas and thoughts with symbols throughout the book: He uses images associated with our senses connected to the important characters and events in the book. The images used create a symbolic dystopia (Watt). When Bradbury uses the word fire as imagery he creates the symbol of fire being both negative and positive. Summing up, imagery is used in forms like symbolism, description, and word clusters to gain attention. Bradbury offers allusion to reveal the meaning of the phoenix that Beatty and the firemen wear. The phoenix is mentioned throughout the book, not just what is shown on Beatty’s hat. In the book the phoenix is on the firemen’s coats and has meaning: “The famous myth which alludes to the rebirth of mankind after their destruction” (156). This evidence suggests that what the firemen do is rebirthing everyone from the illegal act of reading that they do. The phoenix also refers to the idea of the natural cycle. The idea of the natural cycle is shown through the character Granger: The phoenix periodically burned itself to death and resurrected from its ashes to restored youth. Granger expresses his hope that mankind won’t do the same thing (Sisario). This alludes to how mankind is basically physically destructing itself and coming back repeatedly. Hence the phoenix once again, it has an alternate meaning between Beatty and Montag. In Fahrenheit 451 Beatty’s death is symbolic: “Beatty is burned to death by fire and illustrates the rebirth of Montag as he joins Granger on a new intellectual life” (Sisario). Essentially Beatty was like the phoenix towards Montag, giving him a rebirthed new life. All in all, the phoenix was one of the biggest allusions used throughout the book. In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury compares the …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