The sound of electricity crackles faintly, striking fear in anyone within earshot. The faint sniffing under the front door can be heard, and the terrifying eight-legged death machine on the front steps prepares himself for yet another kill. The Mechanical Hound, a character in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, thinks only what she is told to think. This creature’s thoughts are one of a kind; the lack of original thoughts made by the Hound speaks plenty about the society he was created in, compared to the fact that the machine functions solely to slaughter people. The many mechanical pieces, police alert, frayed wires, and DNA sequences displayed in the apparatus of the mechanism represent the inner workings of the mind of one of the dogs. The DNA sequence placed below the ‘nose’ of the Hound represents all of the creatures killed for the sport of killing. The firemen on-duty with no job to attend to would program the DNA sequences of animals into the Hound and bet on whether one creature or another would be captured by the Hound first. The Hound comes out of its kennel for these competitions often, functioning only for the sake of gambling. He thinks and breathes death, whether it is for the entertainment of …show more content…
The Hound was created to kill outlaws in a clean, flawless way, creating little cleanup and even a little enjoyment in seeing the beautiful acrobatics of the slaughter. Montag’s escape from the Hounds he encounters, followed by the death of an innocent man, portrays the corrupt society the Hound has been raised in. The thoughts of the mechanism during the chase changes midway, in order to please the public. The Hound does her job however she is told to do it, even if it is for the entertainment of the people watching the high-speed chase of a renegade. Whatever the people are interested in is what is delivered, morphing this pristine killing machine into simply an entertainment
Wrongs of Society Unfortunately in today's society, elderly people are mistreated along with handicapped people seen as unfit and useless. In Steinbeck's novel, they show a great deal of unfairness to both humans and animals when they are no longer useful or productive to society. Although, older generations helped raise us, in society we generally do not take care of them. Animals are put down, or killed when they no longer have a purpose to their owner. Also, in the novel handicaps are looked down on because they take time to care for and are not seen as good workers.
Ray Bradbury uses animal imagery in this dialogue with the machine. It provides a paradox where the hound can be both a machine and an animal, and it is both alive and dead. There is irony and foreshadowing also in this quote. The irony in the quote is found when they are talking
They would actually have to go with the killing of the firemen because if they lived, they could form even more mechanical hounds to support the on their searches because a few of the firemen probably passed on to the afterlife.
There are tons upon tons of symbolic items in the story. As it says in How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster, symbols don’t just have to have a single meaning. The Hound in “Fahrenheit 451” can be portrayed with several different meanings, such as the control of the government through technology or it could be seen as the “watchdog of society.” There are so many cases of symbolism in the story that it just seems selfish to limit them to one meaning. Another important thing that the passage by Foster, is that if a symbol can only be reduced into meaning one thing, then it's not a symbol at all.
As the only beneficiary, the government would kill two birds with one stone. The appearance of the hounds not only speeds up the process of eliminating government threats but also warms the rest
The Fox and the Hound 2 is a midquel to the movie The Fox and the Hound. In this movie a fox, named Tod, and a puppy, named Copper, are best friends. Copper discovers a musical band of hounds and wants to join. Once the members hear him sing he quickly becomes a member of the band and slowly drifts away from Tod. Tod soon realizes he has to somehow find a way to get his best friend back.
Hounds are made to kill anyone that breaks the law. The government doesn 't care if violence is used, its part of life. “A four inch hollow steel needle plugged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine and procaine.” (Bradbury 22).
In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character, goes from loving his job to rethinking of his job. Montag came in mind that his job not only hurt him but also hurt society. He began to realize that he no longer enjoyed his job. Montag did not like the fact of knowing that his job was only hurting other people.
In the science fiction novel, I am Legend, by Richard Matheson, the author, by accurately and minutely describing Robert Neville’s reactions, thoughts and emotions, allows his readership to engage with his story and to imagine what it’s like to be alone in a hostile world. Robert Neville has been fighting off vampires from inside his house for many years because he is the last human being alive. He goes through many obstacles, trying to find a cure for the vampires, and goes through many mental challenges as well. Robert has changed as a result of all this happening to him. He thinks, reacts, and does things differently than before the outbreak.
A dystopian society is a dysfunctional society that is marketed to its citizens as a utopian society. It includes elements such as a lack/ downplay of religion or one government sanctioned religion that everyone must follow. The government either uses force and or fear to control its population. There is a suppression of freedom of speech and a suppression of intellectualism. In this society, there is a protagonist who rebels against the status quo.
The Hound is the way Montag sees that censorship is a poor choice. The Hound was a motivating factor towards Montag when he realized that things in his society weren 't right. This motivates him to create the change that leads to overcoming
In the novel, it chases Montag after he kills Beatty and flees to Faber’s house. Montag luckily lost the hound by jumping into the river, which didn't allow the dog to continue following Montag’s scent. Even though the setting and its surrounding can change a story, the plot can change it much
Stapleton keeps the hound out of sight, but not out of sound, “A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor. It filled the whole air, and yet it was impossible to say whence it came” (Doyle 111). Stapleton explains that one could only get to the old mine within the moor, where the hound resides by, “...remembering certain complex landmarks [as he is] able to...” (111). The moor camouflages the hound while still allowing it to feed into the legend of the Baskerville Curse, making it, “...hardly possible to bring home the guilt to the real murderer” (266).
The Hound of the Baskervilles -> Facts about the character: The person I am going to describe is Mr. Jack Stapleton. Mr. Jack Stapleton is the bad guy in the Hound of the Baskerville. In the Hound of the Baskerville a lot of unexpected things happen. But everyone knows that Mr. Jack Stapleton is the Murder in the book. The real name of Jack Stapleton is Rodger Baskerville Jr.
Mark Twain believes that dogs are superior to man because out of all animals, man is the only one that is cruel enough to inflict pain on others just for the pleasure of doing it. Twain’s short story “A Dog’s Tale”, written in 1903, displays these beliefs and is done so from a dog’s point of view. This unusual take on the story is used to help convey the theme that one shouldn’t assume the others will do the same for them. The story includes literary elements such as characterisation, structural irony and a plot and conflict. It is a story of a loyal and heroic dog which unfortunately ends in an ironic twist of fate.