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Annotated Bibliography For Fahrenheit 451

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Matthew Roach
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Annotated Bibliography
14 February 2023

Annotated Bibliography
"Historical Context: Fahrenheit 451."EXPLORING Novels. Gale, 2003. Gale in Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2111500082/SUIC?u=j220907&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=c61ca29f. Accessed 14 Feb. 2023.
Summary: The article gives a complete analysis of the background of Fahrenheit 451 and the circumstances Ray Bradbury was writing his novel in. The idea of book burnings stemmed from Nazi Germany in WWII, Censorship came to the forefront in the 1960s with arts, political repression and conformity came from Soviet Repression, and technology being used badly stemmed from the fear of Nuclear war. In particular, the article’s emphasis on conformity is impactful. For instance, during World War II, the beginning of war stimulated the military economy. In the US, opportunities for advancement grew as well as the encouragement of people helping out with the war effort. The ideas of working hard to get ahead and if you followed orders, you would succeed were rapidly becoming used to conform American’s to the war effort which was a real time example of conforming that Bradbury drew his book from. …show more content…

This provides some context behind the creation of the book and the themes it presents. Furthermore, the article shows that the ideas of conformity were in intent to bend the will of the people in favor of the war effort. This is significant as this theme is apparent throughout Fahrenheit 451 and is viewed as a negative thing through the eyes of Montag. Overall, this article connected real time examples of conformity to the book's creation and showed the context behind which the book was

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