Werner Herzog

“The Obsolete Man” takes place in a futuristic time in which books are banned and the occupation of a librarian is seen as a crime. In the episode, Romney Wordsworth, who served as a librarian, is put on trial for being obsolete, or outdated. The episode is essentially focused on two sides of the argument, Wordsworth acting as the protagonist and advocator of books, while the Chancellor is seen as the evil counterpart who holds the ultimate power in the matter. Later, the Chancellor rules that…

Fahrenheit 451 is an impeccable book written by Ray Bradbury. This novel contains a government that banned books and a tightly controlled society. The characters live under laws that influences the civilization to be ignorant and only depend on technology. Creativity and being considered different is rare in the dystopian society. Books and ideas are burned, books are burned physically, whereas knowledge burns in the mind. Fahrenheit 451 creates an image of a “perfect” culture that in the end…

The primary conflict of the novel is the character Guy Montag as he tries to act against Beatty. In spite of the fact that Montag and Beatty looked the same toward the start of the novel, they are altogether are different both psychologically and rationally due to their age contrast and the general people they meet. To begin with, they both share the same profession, and have worked in the book burning for a long period of time. Moreover, they both love to read books; it is indicated that Beatty…

Imagine a world where books are forbidden, everything is fast paced and firemen don’t put out fires they make them. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in October of 1953, there is a main character named Montag. The book is about how Montag learns to like books. The characters in the book try to either teach Montag to like books or steer him away from books. One of the characters, Clarisse teaches Montag that not everything has to be fast paced or you don’t have to follow…

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces two women who influence the life of the main character Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job dedicates to destroying books. The seventeen-year-old neighbor Clarisse McClellan is mentioned first and provides the stimulus for Montag’s new outlook on life. His wife Mildred, whose personality differs completely from Clarisse’s, portrays the second woman who impacts Montag. With their differences, Clarisse and Mildred influence Montag in opposite ways with…

Ray Bradbury definitely wrote a very good story about a possible dystopian future, but he also inclines that our current society could go down that path if we let it happen. Firemen burn books, and that's what we see with our main character, Guy Montag. He works as a fireman, a literal fireman, and burns books. But what is Ray Bradbury really trying to tell us with this book? He is trying to warn us about our society. In the society in the book, the lack of realistic information, or information…

The Road is full of various symbols and images as the online book reviewer Ted Gioia stated in his review "The landscape—always important in setting the atmosphere in McCarthy’s books—hardly more inviting than a battlefield or the dark side of the moon"(Gioia, 2008). The most noticeable symbol would be the "fire" which has a total different meaning than in Miller's novel, the man several times throughout the novel mentions it to his son "You have to carry the fire. I dont know how to. Yes you do…

Ray Bradbury used many different symbols in his novel Fahrenheit 451, but he used six specific symbols to really tell the story. The first of these symbols is the Phoenix. In Mediterranean mythologies, the phoenix is a bird that is consumed by fire but then rises from the ashes. The phoenix represents renewal, and the life that follows death. After the city is leveled by bombs, the character Granger directly compares humans and the story of the phoenix. The next symbol is the Salamander. The…

Smoking Smoking kills so why bother starting? This question is stated at the bottom of the advertisement in a big, bolded font. Within this advertisement is a picture of a man holding a gun, which he is reloading with cigarettes. This advertisement conveys the message that smoking kills. This advertisement goes by showing that smoking kills, by comparing it to bullets in a gun. It is stating that using cigarettes can cause as much damage a bullet can. The message of this advertisement is focused…

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury in 1953. This book takes place in a futuristic, dystopian society where books are illegal and firemen burn books instead of putting out fires. Bradbury uses many motifs such as repetition or symbolism. Fire, mirrors, and the thought of something being alive and dead are all examples of symbolism in this novel. See a world changed through Guy Montag, fireman, husband, citizen, an ordinary man. Throughout the book, Montag’s view of fire is…