Bradbury's Use Of Figurative Language In Fahrenheit 451

When I first began reading Fahrenheit 451 I was skeptical of how it would turn out. As I read the book I noticed that there was a lot of figurative language. As soon as I noticed this I knew that I had to add it to my essay. Bradbury had a way with words and bringing the characters in the story alive with metaphors and imagery words, and I think that this is what made me like him so much as an author. As I went through and analyzed the text and what was put into the book, what type of fiction it is, and when and where the story took place, it made me wonder why he wrote the book. Why was writing this book so important to him, what message was he trying to portray to today 's society? But most importantly, how did Fahrenheit 451 come to …show more content…
He wrote a lot of paradoxes. At the start of the book, when Montag enters his bedroom he says that it is not empty, but then the room is described as indeed empty. This is because Montag 's wife Mildred was physically in the room but her thoughts were elsewhere. Bradbury used these frequently throughout the story. Bradbury also used Religion a lot and one thing that I found while researching, was that the books contains references to the wedding at Cana. At the wedding Christ changed water into wine, and in the book Faber describes himself as water and Montag as fire. And if they combine they would form wine. There are also many references to fire in the novel. In Christian tradition, fire was and is very important. There was the burning bush which showed God 's presence, and in the book Montag burned Beatty alive with fire and won his freedom in the end. Bradbury also used imagery from the bible to conclude his story, at the end when the book people cross survivors and they are so in shock from the bombing that they can 't speak but Montag knows that they will talk at some point and says a quote from Ephesians. "To everything there is a season". When Bradbury wrote, it was symbolic. There was a reason that he said everything he did. There were many symbols in Fahrenheit 451. The first is blood. In the book, blood is a symbol of a persons repressed soul or primal self. This is intimately related to the snake machine that was used on Montag 's wife, Mildred, when she overdosed on her sleeping pills. The men who came to the house to replace her blood hooked up the snake machine to Mildred, and replaced the poisoned blood with pure blood. The problem was though that even though her blood wasn 't physically poisoned anymore, figuratively it