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Fahrenheit 451 Theme Analysis

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Introduced late in the story Granger represents the world that Guy Montag dreamed of but is unaware what to do when he discovers it. Montag hides books that he steals but fails to interpret them; discovering the “professors” was Montag’s goal but once they are found he does not know what to make of them. The dystopian setup for this novel provides wide interpretation for symbolism and text theme.Granger introduces, to Montag, the theme of creation over destruction. This theme is a lesson that Montag learns should be applied to personal life and one's role in society. To begin this book Montag burns the knowledge around him. By staying with his wife Mildred and spending money on installing “walls” Montag was destroying his own intuition and …show more content…

When Fahrenheit 451 begins Montag loves fire and he loves his job; a job that left him satisfied and with a smile on his face. The destruction of books is his comfortable to him. As his journey progresses he ends up without a job and unable to light anymore matches. His smile vanishes, something Montag believes to be a permanent change, not due to the absence of fire but due to the realization of what the fire did; its complete consumption. The presentation to Montag of the “professors”, of individuals being apart of a whole, and the creation of a way for knowledge to survive mankind are the proof he has craved that he could start something, rather than end it, and become a gardener. Faber touches Montag’s curiosity , Clarisse provokes his ability to wonder, Beatty stokes his anger to become action, and the nameless women who burns with her books touches Montag long after he tries to forget her. The theme of creation, whether it be knowledge or legacy, is present throughout Fahrenheit 451 and Granger provides to Montag a voice of reason to tell him what he already knows; that ashes and nothingness are unacceptable ways to

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In this part of the book, all of the firemen including Montag received a call to burn a house with the books in there. Here became the turning point for Montag as he saw the woman, who already had made her decision to die rather than live in a world of oppression and restricted freedom of thought which books symbolize in this part, burns with the illegal books in the burning house, refusing to go out without the assurance of the safety of the books. We can suppose that his perception is gradually changing through the phrase showing that Montag felt a huge guilt over this, unlike the other firemen or Beatty. Furthermore, during the conversation with his wife, Mildred, Montag says, “We burn a thousand books. We burnt a woman.

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Beatty, the firehouse captain, had been suspicious of Montag being in possession of literature. His dubious thoughts are found to be correct when Mildred turned Montag in. Montag is forced to go on the run, leaving the city for the countryside, where he finds other outcasted intellectuals. The city is bombed, leaving it completely destroyed and the society in ruins. The society Ray Bradbury creates in Fahrenheit 451 showcases how censorship is a threat to free thinking, society’s humanity, and human relationships through the use of imagery, symbolism and motifs.

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Faber explains to Montag that he doesn’t want to get involved by claiming ”I can sit comfortably home, warming my frightened bones, and hear and analyse the firemen 's world, find its weaknesses, without danger. I 'm the Queen Bee, safe in the hive” -Bradbury pg 88. The ultimate boon in Fahrenheit 451 alternatively and more commonly called the climax is when Montag is taken to burn his own house by Beatty. Montag, as angry as can be, turns and burns Beatty. Beatty was a character created for the reader to dislike.

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