MOTIF: MIRRORs
There are references throughout the novel made on mirrors to emphasise the need for people to discover one’s true feelings and to become self-aware. Montag states that he believed Clarisse was just like a mirror as it was after meeting her and seeing himself in her eyes, that he was able to realize he was not happy, that he was actually alone, empty and lost in a meaningless society. Reflections of himself through his wife and the other firemen makes him realise just how shallow everyone is and how oblivious they are to their own unhappiness.
Emphasise the need for society to re-evaluate at itself and change
MOTIFS: PARADOXES
Bradbury repeatedly uses many paradoxical statements—which are used to tell us that without real thinking, we are alive but are we really living. …show more content…
The commonality of suicide attempts and murder blurs the line between life and death in this futuristic society and rises thought about if we are truly alive.
Bradbury is also trying to state that even though his society on the surface seemed supposedly “happy” on the surface it was completely different on the inside as people are becoming emptier and lonelier because they have stopped connecting to the world surrounding them.
"The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live". This means, that although the Hound seemed to be alive, it was just a machine that couldn't actually feel or think for itself.
The comparing of the Hound and people shows how if we continue with mindless thoughts and emptiness, there will be no difference between man and machine- not able to think on our own and
There are references throughout the novel made on mirrors to emphasise the need for people to discover one’s true feelings and to become self-aware. Montag states that he believed Clarisse was just like a mirror as it was after meeting her and seeing himself in her eyes, that he was able to realize he was not happy, that he was actually alone, empty and lost in a meaningless society. Reflections of himself through his wife and the other firemen makes him realise just how shallow everyone is and how oblivious they are to their own unhappiness.
Emphasise the need for society to re-evaluate at itself and change
MOTIFS: PARADOXES
Bradbury repeatedly uses many paradoxical statements—which are used to tell us that without real thinking, we are alive but are we really living. …show more content…
The commonality of suicide attempts and murder blurs the line between life and death in this futuristic society and rises thought about if we are truly alive.
Bradbury is also trying to state that even though his society on the surface seemed supposedly “happy” on the surface it was completely different on the inside as people are becoming emptier and lonelier because they have stopped connecting to the world surrounding them.
"The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live". This means, that although the Hound seemed to be alive, it was just a machine that couldn't actually feel or think for itself.
The comparing of the Hound and people shows how if we continue with mindless thoughts and emptiness, there will be no difference between man and machine- not able to think on our own and