Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Parents and their children rarely see eye-to-eye. Though in the case of Wendy and Peter, they have barely any connection at all. In a house built to comfort their every needs, Peter and his sister depend more on the machines that cook their dinner, give them a bath, and tie their shoes compared to their own parents. They hold a particular fondness for a nursery that brings their thoughts to life on the walls around them. Though as their parents, George and Lydia understand; “-nothing’s too good from our children.” With that, Wendy and Peter imprinted on the room and the machines without any discipline. Ray Bradbury perfectly and creatively uses symbolism to show the separation of the kids and their parents all throughout the dystopian

Including unplugging and turning off everything in the house that Wendy and Peter held dear. As the reader could observe from before; the machines and the room were the children’s world, and were the main representation of the parents the children’s separation. So when George, in a rage, shuts everything off including the nursery, the children go into a furious frenzy of crying and yelling. Though the machines, symbolising the cause of this separation, just go to prove that this scene is representing George’s attempt to fix an unmendable friendship and respect. The story explains that it was too far in time for the parents to simply pull the plug on their past mistakes. The separation was too solid to take back, and with that, in order to keep the children from crying, Lydia convinces George to let the children have their nursery back for just one more minute. This scene symbolises a form of denial of the separation, just to lets the emotions go. Letting the children go to the the nursery just represents letting the children return to their emotions relating to separation too. Though symbolically leaving their minds at ease would do anything but that for them in the end. Only seconds after letting the children return to the nursery, George and Lydia hear the screams of their children. Running to their rescue they find themselves in the situation described in the text; “They ran into the nursery. The veldtland was empty save for the lions waiting, looking at them. ‘Peter, Wendy?’ The door slammed. ‘Wendy, Peter!’”-“He heard Peter’s voice outside, against the door. ‘Don’t let them switch off the nursery and the house,’ he was saying.”-”And then they heard the sounds. The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats.” In the end, George and Lydia were trapped in the room, killed and eaten by the lions. This scene