Literary Devices In Fahrenheit 451

In this passage from Fahrenheit 451, the author, Ray Bradbury, incorporates multiple literary devices to develop his purpose and message about life in his novel. This passage especially shows the theme that restricting a person's desire to learn and be curious will create a boring and colorless society. To begin with, Bradbury incorporates the use of metaphor when he’s comparing the parlor walls to being “great idiot monsters.” These “monsters” are essentially the villains as they make sure nobody exercises their minds, nor become smarter. Mildred’s humanity and ability to think is ripped away from her by them. Her obsession with these “idiot monsters” held her back from any unique thought, nor any “thinking outside of the box.” Monsters bring about harm, and

Boring. I am a naysayer. Plain. The. Bradbury uses personification when he mentions the vacuum “hissing” and the emptiness “whistling” with a “senseless scream.” It is almost as if these parlor walls can sense the lack of meaning and the empty void felt in this society. Whether the walls are screaming for help or hissing with anger, Bradbury is using human qualities to show how empty and plain this society is. Even the repetition of the word “emptiness” when relating it to the vacuum shows that life is literally sucked out of the room (and people’s minds) and obviously in society as a whole. Also, Bradbury further uses imagery when he describes the “gift of one huge bright yellow flower of burning.” It is at this point, when the thought of color, even in the form of a “beautiful” flower, is brought into the passage. It is not often that fire and flowers express a sense of beauty. While he uses a metaphor when he refers to the fire being “a gift” it does essentially bring about the necessary end to the control of these parlor walls. Fire is a repeated symbol often in the novel as it represents following the law, but for Montag in this moment, it represents him fighting back against the control and