Fahrenheit 451 Foreshadowing Analysis

Bradbury establishes foreshadowing to warn the reader what’s to come in his future imagined society. Foreshadowing is present when the robot hound appears at Guy and Mildred’s door. Guy asks Captain “What does the hound think about down there nights? Is it coming alive on us, really? It makes me cold” (Bradbury 25). Guy is confused about the dog’s existence, he doesn’t know if it’s dead or alive which frightens him. Later in the novel when guy commits a crime the dog is back. Not only does the dog go after him but injects him with procaine, attempting to fill him. Bradbury gives us a hint that the hound will cause harm to Montag. Foreshadowing is also shown when Clarisse is introduced to the reader. She asks Montag a handful of question but one question …show more content…
Montag first becomes defensive and gets a little angry. Montag wonders why he wouldn’t be happy, he’s married, just moved, and loves his job. As he later identifies the question he realizes he’s not happy with anything. He wonders about the outside world and knows he doesn’t belong. Montag tries to make himself happy by reading books. He actually enjoys this but wants to know more. Montag wouldn’t have struck this interest with Clarisse asking him if he’s happy therefore creating foreshadowing. While everyone in Fahrenheit 451 is worried about their own lives, a nuclear war is in action. “Throughout the book, Montag hears mentions of a possible war on the television and radio, but no one seems interested in talking about it or doing anything substantial to avert it. Sure enough, at the end of the book, jets from the opposing side of the war pass overhead and bomb the city into rubble; it has been clear from the beginning that a war was on the horizon” (Lenhoff 2). From the beginning of the novel we find that a war is taking place over the city, readers get a hint from this that the war will later come into play. Bradbury uses foreshadowing to hint what’s to come in the imagined