Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 is a startling world full of sparkling symbols that surpass expectation. The book’s most often used symbol is a beautiful, destructive flame. In Fahrenheit the author Ray Bradbury constructed Montag as the main character. He burns books for a living to keep the society calm and controlled. He has a wife called Mildred and a neighbor, Clarisse who makes Montag realize that the world is not quite what is seems and the only answers can be found in books. Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional novel by Ray Bradbury who portrays the dystopian society ideally by using masterful symbolism of objects and Characters through the representation of the society’s follies and hopes. Ray Bradbury vividly describes a world where fire is a tool of

The mechanical hound is a symbol of bonds between dogs and men. The mechanical hound is a proper figure since dogs are closest to mankind, yet it is without emotions, loyalty, and love (Bradbury 2). The hound reflects how man’s emotions are void since they prefer dogs without feelings. Secondly, the hound is used to degrade life for entertainment. The firemen use the hound as entertainment by sacrificing mice, chickens, and cats to the hound (Bradbury 3). This shows that life does not have meaning to humanity anymore since it is mocked in the use of entertainment. Lastly, humanity has made the hound into a terrifying killing machine. The striking image of the hound stalking prey while being televised as a manhunt makes it a genuinely thrilling scene (Watt 7). The hound represents man’s desire to only kill and entertain themselves rather than to protect each other. This hound drastically shows how mankind has lost touch with the meaning of life and emotions, However the parlor walls builds them up to this

It does this by affecting the younger generation minds’. The determinant of culture in Fahrenheit 451 is the rapid evolution of TV. The abuse of this technology degrades the populace making the young violent and frustrated (Zipes 1). The abuse of this technology shows that society is making standards for mankind to be violent. Next, these walls do not even let you have feelings of your own. Montag’s wife watches the parlor walls all day, but there is no love between them since society had discouraged strong emotions to keep everyone complacent (Magill’s Survey of Cinema 1). Clearly this states how the parlor walls do not want society getting attached to things other than the walls and try to keep people from doing anything on their own. Thirdly these parlor walls do not let people have a single thought for themselves. People like Mille that watch TV sets all day are abundant in society and Millie does not have any independent thoughts and even tries to commit suicide, but does not know it (Bradbury 1). The fact Millie did not know she was committing suicide shows that the walls control her thoughts, since she watched them all day and does not have independent thoughts of her own. Overall, this exhibits the facts that the walls influence people not to have emotions, independent thoughts, and young to be violent, to add individuality is happiness in this