Allusions In Fahrenheit 451

That represents the society that Montag lived in, and how it is empty and pointless, notwithstanding its full and busy schedule as it goes after its worldly pleasures. Ecclesiastes is an important book in the Bible, Montag memorizes it, and becomes the book’s guardian as Montag and the “The Book People” go to help rebuild the city. Ecclesiastes contains important lessons on how to rebuild society that is based on real, significant values instead of

Later in the book, Montag was on the train trying to memorize the bible in fear that he could have the last copy. He was reading as fast as possible hoping that the information in the bible would stay in his mind. An advertisement was making him loose concentration and therefore the information was slipping through his mind. It reminded him of the “Sieve and the Sand” incident from earlier in his life that was so upsetting to him. The modern world in the novel counts on this inability to concentrate. This life without books has encouraged people to live for moment so to speak. Everywhere you go there’s mindless sound such as the advertisement that makes people to be unable concentrate and seriously think. People who can't think are more easily controlled. Montag feel as if banning books has made people's minds turn into sieves unable to hold thought.

There is “A time to break down, and a time to build up. A time to keep silence and a time to speak”(Bradbury 158). It is natural instinct to be curious, but the way to ignite curiosity is to have a little detail about an unknown or books. A time to speak refers to any time one feels that something isn’t right or they don’t agree with. Bradbury has Montag go against the rules and read the books. The author wants Montag to know the truth because he kept giving him clues about it. Montag has many difficulties but people like Clarisse and Faber help him overcome it, whether it's helping Montag escape or sparking his initial thought about reading books. Bradbury shows that people are going to want the truth even if it causes pain because he puts his character thru so much pain to get the truth but Montag still finds out the truth. Sometimes the pain is “horror at having pulled back only in time to have just his knee slammed by the fender of a car” (Bradbury 114). Some may ask why would anyone want this pain just for the truth. Why wouldn’t they just give up it's not worth it people say. Bradbury proves that it is worth the pain. Even tho Montag had a painful experience on his journey he gets the truth in the end. The pain is just a roadblock in finding the truth. It's like dealing with a problem. The problem will cause stress and anxiety but in the end one will be happier because the problem is gone.To conclude when people get a little about the truth they want to know more about the truth even if it causes them some stress or physical

Montag is wondering what is inside books that could further his ideas since he has been hooked to clarisse’s world. The significance to the claim is that Montag wants to be lively like clarrise instead of boring fireman, and there is no other way to be like that without the imagination and creativity in books. “ Not if you start talking, the start of talking that might set me burnt for my trouble” (Bradbury 87). Montag is starting to notice his speech is more developed like a book reader, Beatty is catching on! The significance of this quote is that Montag is starting to be like Clarisse and he likes that a lot. Montag likes being free, and calm with the world and books gave him

Montag is trying to memorize the Bible and in doing so he tells himself, “Shut up, thought Montag. Consider the lilies in the field” (74). This is an allusion to the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus teaches his followers of morals and spoke against tangible, worldly items. Which parallels completely to the idea of being an individual in society rather than a monotone drone because if people could keep their intellectual property, the society Bradbury has created would become obsolete. Thus demonstrating the dangers of censorship. Multiple other allusions are made by Faber, Montag’s old professor who gives in to teaching him about books. Faber explains that Montag should pity those who burn books and are captivated by the pretty fire because they do not know any better (99). This alludes to the forgiving nature of God in the New Testament, as Faber tells Montag that they don’t know any better, just as people who are not in the light of God do not know that they are doing anything wrong (in accordance with Christian literature). In relation to the New Testament, being forgiving and accepting is what the society in Fahrenheit 451 is lacking, showing that by acceptance people of all different thoughts may coexist peacefully. Faber’s name is actually derived from Homo Faber, or the creator of everything in the life of homo sapiens, therefore depicting him in a godly

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is full of different allusions from different books and authors and also full of themes connected to the allusions. Some of the allusions in the book are Henry David Thoreau and his book, Walden. Guy Fawkes and the book of Job connect to the book as well.

Granger is the head of a group of former book burners who memorize and recall books for preservation. “All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there” (151). In this moment, Granger explains to Montag that his group remembers whole books, but he implies that by doing so, it reveals something disturbing. With the risks that come of hiding away with books in mind, Granger and his friends still do it. “We’re used to that. We all made the right king of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here. When we were separate individuals, all we had was rage. I struck a fireman when he came to burn my library years ago. I’ve been running ever since. You want to join us, Montag” (150)? After Montag is filled in by Granger

In this society, it is important to read a book for own knowledge. However, in novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, people are not allowed to read any book nor have any desires to read. They do not know the importance of the book. However, in this novel, three people influence Montag that human should read books and allows him to realize how important it is to do so.

Therefore, through books, Montag becomes conscious of the monotony of his previous life, and now rebels against the very foundations of his society. Due to this intellectual illumination, Montag begins to acknowledge the details of the world around him, details he had once ignored: ‘”Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass this morning.”’As enlightenment dawns on Montag, he finally begins to realise the power within books (i.e. they hold the key to power through knowledge) and this is his ‘crime’ against society: ‘There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house...’ Despite his newfound interest, Montag is still struggling to understand the concept of literature. Once again however, Montag is pushed in the right direction by Professor Faber. Under Faber’s guidance, Montag recognises that ‘There is nothing magical about [books] at all. The magic is only with what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment.’ This quote exemplifies the fact that although books are the combination of mere ink and paper, it is the beliefs and the knowledge within a book that are so incredibly powerful.

The theme of knowledge and ignorance was shown multiple times throughout this book. In this rising action there was plenty of examples of this them, all of them involved montag or some other character expressing their feelings toward books. In the rising action montag and the firemen went to some lady's house because they recieved an alarm when they got there the lady had a library and they told her to move but she didn't so she was burnt with her house and with her books. Montag then went home later and told this to his wife and he thought there must be something in books to make a lady want to die with her books.The quote from this event is ”We burned a thousand books.We burned a woman” This

Knowledge is power. A power that gives the people their right to have influence in society. Imagine a world where this power was taken away. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a fireman named Guy Montag lives in a society some time in the future where a fireman’s job is to burn all books in order to prevent people from trying to revolt against the government with knowledge, and the books are replaced by mindless technology. Montag is originally one of the majority of people who is brainwashed and conforms to this society. After meeting an unusual teenager named Clarisse who introduces him to books, Montag starts to wonder what books are really like. As he begins reading literature, Montag breaks away from the others and becomes one of these non-conformists himself, speaking out against the corrupt society. Many key aspects of the society set up by Bradbury show how technology has destroyed this fictional society and causes readers to notice similarities in today’s real society.

A theme for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is that knowledge can prepare us for the future. According to Fahrenheit 451 it states,”Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief.” This supports the theme because the only reason Guy Montag stole the books was because he wanted to know more about his job to see if his job isn’t helping his society which supports the claim since he taking resources from the scene of where the fire was and using the books to his advantage to see if he can stop the problem of his job. According to Fahrenheit 451 it states, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” He laughed. “That’s against the

Many authors use literary devices such as allusions, metaphors, similes, imagery, euphemisms, and others to create a more enhanced effect to their work. Ray Bradbury, the author of the acclaimed dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, cleverly incorporated several of these, throughout the text, along with a lot of symbolism. One example is the relentless burning of literature, symbolizing the ignorance of human beings, as well as the censorship of knowledge and freedom of thought. Another example is the many fascinating technological innovations featured in the novel, such as the TV walls or the mechanical hound, which expresses how people had mindlessly replaced the “real” stuff with the artificial.

In the poem, Stafford depicts books as a symbol of ignorance and believes they should be burnt as he writes a verse of imagery about them turning to ashes. However he mostly judges people for not writing anymore and finds it disturbing to see “whole libraries that no one got around to writing.” The poem interests the reader mostly because of the time during which it was written: 1987. This was during the Cold War, a time of tension between the USA and Russia, who begin to build nuclear weapons to destroy one another. During this time, people show more interest in knowing what is going on in the news, rather than spending their time writing books, meaning that not as many books were being written. Also, a part of the books that were made were from the government who used propaganda. This demonstrates how the time period has a big impact on the opinion of writers. In this case, William Stafford wants to burn propaganda books which he interprets as ignorant because they do not always show the truth and wants to encourage people to write smart texts that contribute to

Bradbury uses allusions to provide ideas of how the characters in the novel understand literature and past occurrences. Throughout this novel, Bradbury alludes to events in history, mythological, and Biblical stories. He brings up historical events to draw the connection that the pass is reoccurring in the future which is a prominent social issue. The use of mythological allusions in Fahrenheit 451 emblematizes how far left society has gone and that even someone with clear eyes cannot even see what is happening. Bradbury does this by referring to the legends of "Hercules" and "Antaeus (Bradbury 79)." The Biblical allusions in the novel represent how relatable and similar main Guy Montag is to Jesus. They are both similar in the way of how they lead others. The allusion of "water turning into wine" is a parallel between "Jesus finding ministry" and "Montag's aspiration for transformation." Guy Montag found and taught enlightenment in society that only wanted to promote ignorance, and Jesus took the knowledge that he knew and led his followers to salvation (Bradbury 49).