Fahrenheit 9/11

The Dalia Lama said, “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” This quote explains happiness shows up due to actions made ones in life. In Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 most characters find happiness as a trait that is very hard to achieve. This is easily seen due to the amount of characters that are dull, boring, and depressed. Those characters efforts to create happiness are slim to none. In the book some characters achieved happiness from their own actions…

“It was a pleasure to burn (1)”. In the opening line of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, something is already burning. The portrait of a morally conflicted fireman in a bleak, book-burning society’s cover bears a box of matches; the main character douses things with kerosene for a living. Fire has to be be a prevalent symbol throughout the book. Yet, is it a completely negative symbol? How does it relate to other symbols, such as the river, and the phoenix? How do all of these symbols connect to…

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist, Guy Montag resides in America, however a futuristic dystopian version of it differs from America today. In this alternate culture, the possession of books are prohibited and the lives of people are limited due to the restrictions made by the government. The government manipulates the society into believing firemen have the ability to start fires in preference of burning them out. Firemen have orders to invade people’s homes and burn…

sucked in by their compelling nature of entertainment. This lack of content is also reflected in the society of Fahrenheit 451 as Mildred and her friends are watching television in the description, “A minute later, Three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each…

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction book that looks into the future. This book is about a man named Guy Montag, who is a fireman who burns books along with people’s houses. Montag eventually learns from a young girl named Clarisse, who is 16 years old, that there is actually something special about these books that he is burning. Clarisse shows Montag that there is curious people out there in the world seeking for answers. Beatty is the fire chief, who turns out to be not a very…

Beyond the Obvious Did you ever think twice after reading the titles of the three parts of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451? Examining the symbolic meaning of the titles is precisely what I will be doing in this essay. Bradbury’s book is packed with symbols and themes throughout the plot, some more subliminal than others. The titles are significant to the story, helping to convey the plot as Montag goes from an ignorant fireman to a rebellious outcast. Each of the titles communicates its own message…

countries, the German Student Union ceremonially burned books that went against the ideals of Nazism. Heinrich Heine, a German Jewish poet at that time, said, “Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people.” The society in Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, has firemen that burn the houses of those that possess books. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman that is offered the chance to reflect on his life and make a difference. His perception of fire and his profession mirrors his…

Chaucer is pretty well known in the English subject and Canterbury Tales is one of the most popular collection of stories. Though most are too inappropriate to read for high school students and you’re only able to really read only two of the tales he had wrote, there is a strong meaning behind the two. Chaucer is trying to point out all the negative things to the people of his time that certain things are doing, like the church, how men are superior to women, or class and nobility issues. Though…

William Faulkner is rather well-known in the American literary sphere for his speech at the 1950 Nobel Banquet, where, after accepting his award, he begins to address an issue that he feels is plaguing young new writers of that generation: writing with the notion of the apocalypse, unyielding pessimism, and selfishness. To Faulkner, writing about human emotion, empathy, and hope are the only things worth writing about, and this is something that he feels new writers don’t include because of the…

you to the destructive mystery of life. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury use of color symbolism is present throughout its entirety to symbolize the loss of human connection. Montag the protagonist of the novel, is living in a society where the precious connection between humans is lacking. This connection is required, so humans could flourish as a species. Yet in a society where darkness is taking over society, nothing can be done. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury uses symbolism to…