The firemen that burnt a city Fahrenheit 451 is a book written in a futuristic setting that depicts a world solely dependent on television technology to sustain a society that has become dehumanized and separated from morality through the use of censorship. The outlawing of books in this novel not only devalued the technique of learning but created a void that the government filled with mind altering subliminal message sending television shows. The book has a few commonalities with our society today in the sense that technology has run rampant and the use of a newspaper is almost obsolete. We are heavily dependent on our source technologies like the internet but we are not bound by these sources. The information that’s provided is accessible …show more content…
Through tone, symbolism, and imagery Fahrenheit 451 creates a convoluted paradigm of the dehumanized destruction of humankind. The tone of this story is set by a depiction of a war stricken city in the late 90’s where mental oppression and intellectual subjugation is unprecedented. Censorship has been set by governing bodies on this society and the people have been stripped of there constitutional rights. It’s actually criminal behavior to own books and further more have been outlawed. The characters are shown to be living out normal lives in a society that will kill you and burn your house down for owning a book. This leads me to believe that there is a phycological offset and a large scale of brain washing at hand here. These audacious standards opened doors for the heavy addictions to technology. A rough analysis would …show more content…
When Montag’s wife overdosed on pills the plumbers used a snake to suck out the poisoned blood from her body and replaced it with fresh blood. The symbol of blood was used to depict the corruption that filled her body and so many others like her.The machine was able to extract it and replace it but it was not able to heal her from lifelessness that absorbed her soul. The sieve and the sand is where Montag was fooled bu his cousin in their childhood where he was promised money if he could fill a sifter with sand. Montag remembered this symbol when he was trying to read and memorize the bible but ultimately he felt the task was impossible to achieve. At the end of the story Montag’s new associate Granger compared the bombing of the city to that of the Phoenix which burns it’s self to rise again. He used this reference to that of man kind to say that no matter how bad make things for ourselves as humans there's always someone with the fortitude to do