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Fahrenheit 451 Figurative Language

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In the first four pages of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses figurative language to describe how Montag lives jocundly ignorant about his superficial society, when in reality he is destroying it. Bradbury begins by describing Montag as someone who enjoys destruction with his “fiery smile” (Bradbury 4) alike most citizens in this futuristic society similar to current society, for “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 2). Blackened and changed is a metaphor for the process in which firemen burn knowledge out of society, something Montag believes is right and takes part in. He thinks that burning is a beautiful thing to do, and that his hands are “the hands of some amazing conductor playing
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Carlos Mejia Mrs. Bowen English 10B 29 June 2016 Style Analysis Essay The writing style of fahrenheit 451 is vivid and imaginative. Ray Bradbury uses many similes and metaphors to express how the characters feel or see things. For example, “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world”. Ray describes the house shooting kerosene upon the burning house.

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Bradbury uses simple, choppy sentences and phrases to reflect the nature of the society we’ve been pulled into. This is a world that jumps around quickly moving from one event and stimuli to the next. His chosen syntax is deliberating and slyly integrating us into his vision. The repetition of the phrase “to see things” emphasizes his desire to show the reader how fascinated the main character is by the transformation of objects that are on fire. He doesn’t come out and explicitly say this is what the world is like, but by using italics for the word “changed” he hints that this is a place unlike the world with which we are familiar.

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In this excerpt from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury uses aggression, satisfaction, and frustration in the form of metaphors and anaphoras to describe Montag burning his own house down. As Montag goes into the parlor to burn it down, Bradbury compares the TV walls to "great idiot monsters" (Bradbury). Montag'll finally be satisfied when he burns down the walls that've made him an idiot practically all of his life. The separation from the main memory of Mildred will make him so as

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There is so much knowledge in this world that’s meant to be put to use, except there’s a choice that can be made of whether to use the knowledge faithfully, or think and form an opinion about it. There’s just one problem, it’s impossible to think individually if there’s no freedom to have that vital choice. With the right minds, it’s however possible to make interpretations to find a new way of independence. Ray Bradbury expresses profoundly in Fahrenheit 451 that depending on what is seen and how its depicted can lead to receiving a sense of sovereignty, or to having the instinctual drive for perception, that shows what is believed and what is known, crushed unconditionally. Observations are key to survival, although it has also been learned over many years of thinking that it is useful to announce reactions and thoughts while having the capacity to make

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In part II of Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury includes two stanzas of Dover Bach by Matthew Arnold. In this written response I’ll be stating why I think this section of the poem was used and how it’s connected to the society in Fahrenheit 451. In the first stanza of Dover Beach it’s projecting a calm and peaceful setting before turning the tables on the last line which correlates with the beginning of the novel Fahrenheit 451. In the novel before books were banned it seemed like a calm environment but as time went on and books became banned conflict seemed to come into action.

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In a future totalitarian society, all books have been outlawed by the government, fearing an independent-thinking public. Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic novel, telling the story of a time where books and independent thinking are outlawed. In a time so unenlightened, where those who want to better themselves by thinking, are outlawed and killed. Guy Montag is a senior firefighter who is much respected by his superiors and is in line for a promotion. He does not question what he does or why he does it until he meets Clarisse.

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In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist and book burner, battles between the light and dark sides of society, first with Beatty, his boss, and the government and then with Clarisse, a neighbor girl and Faber, an English professor. Montag is stuck in the dark burning books and is ignorant to the world around him. He moves towards greater awareness when he meets Clarisse and is awakened to the wonders of deep thought and books. Finally, he risks his life by trying to save the books.

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Bradbury portrays how Montag’s perception of fire and burning books with his personal development changes by the different choices he makes throughout the novel. In the beginning of the book, Montag has a great passion and

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On page 140 of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses similes and connotative language to depict the experience of a new beginning and the feeling of breaking away from societies conformity. For instance, when Montag first realises he is truly safe and free, “He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors” (140). A stage is used by actors that produce plays, musicals, and movies. All of these actors and actresses have these roles that are set before even knowing who is acting out what. This shows how the people act as parts or roles, all being directed because they have no freedom to think and make decisions by themselves because they are restricted by societys normality they were forced to follow.

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in 1953, is about a dystopian society in the future times. Bradbury successfully argues that an individual's ability to be physically and mentally active is destroyed as we are blinded with technology and pure knowledge in books are eliminated. Although his book is well supported through his creative use of figurative language, his failure to create suspense makes the resolution predictable. Montag the main character is a fireman whose life and thoughts change when he meets Clarisse, a intellectual teen, and witnesses a woman set ablaze for having books.

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Can humanity evolve into a society like the one portrayed in Fahrenheit 451? In Fahrenheit 451, books are illegal and if they were found inside your house, your home would be burned down by "firefighters. " I believe that books are illegal in Fahrenheit 451 because it could change people's beliefs about certain topics. Books provide readers to understand the importance of reading and thinking which is what many people lack in the society of Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451, most people lounge around all day and watch the parlor or what they call their "families."

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“Gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face” (Bradbury 132). The people in Fahrenheit 451 are exactly as the protagonist, Montag, describes them: gray, animal, dehumanized and lifeless. Ray Bradbury has built a society in which people spend their days mindlessly watching television. Violence, bullying and murder are common, especially coming from school children, who spend their school days watching even more television. Montag is a fireman who burns books and slowly comes to understand the dehumanized and meaningless state that his society is in.

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