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Examples Of Allusion In Fahrenheit 451

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Highlights how Clarisse and her family is different, perhaps more like normal people in our world. This is also Montag becoming a pedestrian himself because people normally don’t walk around at that time. It also brings in contrast between what is considered abnormal (brightness) and normal (depression). Highlights how the government is very thorough in their censorship, going so far as to rewrite history. This also causes Montag to question his life, because he finds this information hard to believe. This event is a turning point for Montag, because it is an example of how much these books can mean to people. Montag wonders how a person could care so much about something, enough to die for it. This allusion could be describing how Montag …show more content…

This quote connects the two stories, comparing the revelation Montag feels to the inquisitiveness of the man who discovered the outside world This allusion is used as an analogy to show how people in this society are being held away from reasonable thought like Antaeus was held above the ground. Without both feet on the ground, the society and Antaeus are powerless. This allusion highlights what books remind us, that we are human, we make mistakes, and we don’t know everything. The books prevented people from making bad decisions like the praetorian guard protected Caesar. The Cheshire cat smile is a phrase often used when the smile of a person is not for the good of a person, more like a bad omen. In the context of Fahrenheit, the neighbors are described as sincere on the surface, but jealous and cruel …show more content…

Using his cunning and knowledge, Daedalus creates wings for himself and Icarus, which they use to escape the labyrinth. While Daedalus explicitly tells Icarus not to get too close to the sun, for the wings will melt and burn, Icarus becomes ambitious and ignores his father’s warnings. Icarus’ wings melt and he plummets to his death. This allusion describes Montag’s foolishness in not taking a hint from Beatty, and how he is now receiving punishment for his

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Figurative language in Fahrenheit 451 is used to support the theme of rebellion in a number of ways. One example is the use of metaphor to describe the act of reading and the possession of books. The books are described as "mirrors" that reflect the "truth" of the world, and the act of reading them is described as "opening the door to other worlds. " This metaphor emphasizes the idea that books have the power to open people's minds and help them see the world in a new light.

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To begin, At first montag is the average civilian living a normal life. He does what he needs to do to survive, all the while he knows something is missing. Before he met the life changing character Clarisse, he was conformed to society just like everyone else. However, Clarisse was the spark that grew the fire of knowledge in his heart. Then when he seen a woman rather be burned alive then to live without books the spark only grew.

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And I’d never even thought of that before.” (49) Montag begins to realize how wrong what he is doing really was. Books were powerful, Clarisse was powerful. Montag’s world was widening, his vision was expanding.

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As Montag continues to rebel, he is forced to escape the city to get avoid being killed by the Hound. When Montag is floating down the river, he sees the world as he never has before and is amazed by what he sees in the sky, “He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him” (Bradbury 133). The stars are personified as something that can come to him and he cannot escape them. He is no longer a part of society since he is out of the city and he is seeing the world differently as he becomes a new person. As he continues to run away he comes to a group of men sitting around a fire.

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The guidance given to Montag and Icarus is critical as whether they decide to follow it has life or death significance. However, both overlook the advice and choose to follow what they think is truly right and best for them, Montag defying the rules of his society and Icarus ignoring the caution given to him, both characters being utterly ignorant about the advice of their mentors. Moreover, the negligence of advice from Montag and Icarus, such as Icarus defying his father, who informs him not to fly close to the sun, and the neglect of Beatty's caution by Montag causes extreme consequences. Beatty even warns Montag that "if he hasn't burned it by then" meaning the stolen books, he will come to burn them for him as Montag is being too ambitious with his books, and if Montag does not stop, Beatty will put an end to it instead (Bradbury 62). The repercussions Montag and Icarus face from their rashness are both very severe, as it causes Icarus to die and Montag to lose everything.

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Montag came to that conclusion after meeting a group of excommunicated intellectuals near the end of the novel, who showed Montag this idea. This essay will discuss the idea that the art of reading is more important than the content being read. Near the end of the book, Montag came into contact with a group

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Montag’s search for answers end up leading him to read books. Evidence that Clarisse inspires Montag to read is seen in the quote, “These men have been dead a long time but I know some way or the other their words point to Clarisse.” (68) This quote proves even though Clarisse disappears her knowledge is so important to Montag

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Despite being just the beginning of his journey, reading the poem made him realize that he was a fool for not questioning what was happening in society. Montag’s new understanding of what he had been and is becoming leads to a new faith in books and literature for

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You don’t stay for nothing.” (Bradbury 148). This shows how Montag knew something was off and needed to know the importance of the books. The reading of the book is the rebellion Montag constructed against his own government that he works for.

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He met a young girl named Clarisse who opened his eyes to a new perspective and he saw the flaws in his society. Montag couldn’t sit still anymore and decided to take action. This book represents a true struggle between a person's desire for individuality and society working

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"This is significant because it shows that he is missing something even with the books,in this piece of evidence it shows that he thought that books would help him but they just left his with more unanswered questions,while the text develops into something more serious as Montag become more and more reckless,this is important to realize as montag has become more unstable. Another example, is shown on the same page (78)when it states "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the `parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not.

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Montag is extremely curious about books, and the idea of freedom that it drives him crazy. He becomes so crazy that he lies to his wife, and kills his boss. Montag will go to any extent to gain freedom, in the means of breaking laws, and hurting

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Initially, at the start of the novel, Montag embraces the status quo as a fireman, blindly obeying orders to burn books. However, as Montag begins to question the status quo after he witnessed the burning of a woman who chose to die with her books, he willingly sacrifices his comfortable life as a fireman. Montag realizes that books are the missing element in his life and they contain something meaningful and essential that is absent from his society, "We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around.

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(Bradbury 8). Montag is faced, for the first time, with having to examine his life and if he is actually happy. It destroys his “mask”, allowing him to see the problems of his life, and, more importantly, society. The new perspective “kills” a part of him, the part that was content with his perfect life (having a good,

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Montag internally conflicts with himself as he gradually begins to consider what books truly have to offer. For instance, “A book alighted, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering. In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open… Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel… Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest.”

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