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The Firemen In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In his destruction of the books in his novel generates a cautionary foreshadowing a futuristic society. Montag's wife Mildred believes exclusively that the people in the television are her family. Complicating Montag’s life, Bradbury creates a difficult character to be married to, In Mildred mind the people talking through the screen are her loved ones: ““will you turn the parlor off?” he said. “That’s my family” “will you turn it off for a sick man?” “I’ll turn it down,” she went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back “ is that better?” “ thanks””(Bradbury 51). The unrecognized reason for Mildred’s actions could be blamed on the book burning civilization she inhibits or, possibly the government who wanted to replace …show more content…

Jack Zipes interpreting Bradbury’s futuristic novel as a “endemic to academic criticism of science fiction” but the opinion of the ironic term “firemen” is “ the firemen are keepers of peace. The cynically argues the profession of firemen had to expand to keep the people happy and satisfy their complaints”(Zipes 4). The peace keepers are no longer hands off as they are today. Keeping the peace by formalizing each citizen and diminishing distinctiveness between the population of the people in the novel’s fictional society. Undeniably, in a future society where the authors invade and ransack humanity of such a basic needs people are willing to die rather than live without it. Proposing two separate points of view Bradbury shows the readers what it is like to be a citizen: “There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing”(Bradbury). Understanding why a person would die for something he/she loves is difficult circumstance

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