In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses imagery to develop a sense of revolution. When Bradbury writes “He felt his smile melt away, melt, fold over and down on itself like tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle” it compares Montag’s smile to a melting candle. When an appalling realization starts to sink into someone’s mind their smile can slowly change into a frown or another negative expression, more or less how a candle melts. Bradbury uses the image of a candle to represent Montag’s appearance because a candle will melt much slower than something like sugar in a bowl of water. Though there are also a lot of items that will melt slowly, like butter, the theme of Fahrenheit 451 revolves around fire therefore making a candle relate