Fahrenheit 451 - Presentation

Fahrenheit 451

by Anna Bashlakova

Novel by Ray Bradbury

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About the Author

Genre and Point of View

• Ray Bradbury, the author, is born in 1920 and died in 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
• `best known for his new sophisticated novels and short stories that mix a poetic style, adolescent nostalgia, social commentary.
• The novel was published in 1953.

• Utopian and dystopian fiction also fits science fiction.
• This novel is written in the third-person, where an unbiased narrator has special access to one character's thoughts and emotions.

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Main Characters №1

Mildred

Text Evidence

Montag (Protagonist)

• A firefighter
• Tries to hide his emotions under a mask of happiness.
• Tries to go against societies bland norms after interacting with Clarisse.
• has a helmet numbered 451, is mostly described wearing a black suit.
• Smells of gasoline.

• Mildred characterizes shallowness and mediocrity
• Married Montag when she was twenty.
• Has pale skin and chemically burned hair.
• In society, women were expected to have unnatural perfection through hair dye and diets.

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Main Characters №2

Clarisse McClellan

Captain Beatty

Text Evidence

• Leader of the firefighter
• Educated and well-read, ironically, but he moves to ruin books and does not break any uprising of laws.
• Has good skills, but he prefers to remain naive.
• Has dark eyes and hair and his hands are thin.

• Her concerns cause Guy Montag to reconsider his duties to humanity.
• Enjoys simple wonders of life
• She is dressed in a white dress. In her face, she still has a gentle hunger and she smells really sweet.

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Secondary Characters

Old Woman

Mrs.Bowels

Granger

Professor Faber

• Appears when Montag sets fire to her house as it holds books.
• She has a lot of self-respect and passion for books.
• Chooses to burn with the books

• Shows people who oppose the notion of keeping humanity unaware.
• demonstrates how the maintenance of knowledge ensures a consistent culture.

• A friend of Mildred
• Has a wretched life
• Has two kids that hate her
• Her husband died in a car crash
• Spends her life watching TV

• Urges Montag to save books by entering his party with an independent thought and reading routine.
• Has opossite believes to Beatty.

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Setting

• Since 1990s, the world has had two nuclear wars.
• Everyone thinks next one will come soon.
• The exact setting is unknown.
• The key setting is based in and around an unspecified city most likely to be located in the United States.
• Houses are fireproof, and firemen burn books instead of putting out flames.

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Conflict

Man Vs. Self

• He is unhappy with the way his life is, with the absence of a connection with his wife and his culture.
• He battles between orthodoxy and the search for change.

Man Vs. Society

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• Everyone forced him to give up his dreams of individual freedom, and to overlook that he could live life according to his own expectations and dreams.
• No one could do what they truly desired
• Everyone had to be the same
• Montag started to discover that he doesn't like it and battles with the society.

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Plot

Exposition, Rising action, and Climax

TEXT EVID

• Montag is a firefighter who claims he is happy with his work.
• However, when he encounters Clarisse, he strats to question it.
• He comes home to discover that his wife has taken a bottle of sleeping pills, he realizes he's not happy.
• Montag is caught trying to steal a book, Beatty tries to explain why they are censored, as it is his job to discourage people's love to books.
• Reads poem to his wife and friends which made them disgusted.
• Kills his chief and collegues in order to escape with some books.

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Plot

Falling Action and Resolution

TEXT EVID

• Montag meets a group of men that memorize thousands of books and, wait for the moment when the world is interested in reading again.
• Early next morning, enemy bombers fly over the area. The battle starts and ends nearly immediately.
• The city has been reduced to powder.
• Men's party head up to the city to help the survivors recover in the ashes.
• Montag leaves the city and entered a tiny group of refugees who have successfully fled the oppressive society and are committed to the memorization of literature.

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Plot

Falling Action and Resolution

TEXT EVID

• Montag meets a group of men that memorize thousands of books and, wait for the moment when the world is interested in reading again.
• Early next morning, enemy bombers fly over the area. The battle starts and ends nearly immediately.
• The city has been reduced to powder.
• Men's party head up to the city to help the survivors recover in the ashes.
• Montag leaves the city and entered a tiny group of refugees who have successfully fled the oppressive society and are committed to the memorization of literature.

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Theme

Loss of Individuality

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• Fahrenheit 451's world is set up to suck out characters of uniqueness, who go against general social orthodoxy.
• It was encouraged for everyone to be the same.
• And so, they lived in fake universe.
• Where they can just click a pause or a reset button.
• Everyone is just boring, but no one cares as they don't even talk.

Role of Mass Media and Technology

• Characters in this book live in immersion TVs
• These TVs made up fake characters who could've been your family, friends, etc.
• You engaged in conversations with them and lived that fake life in four wall TV rooms.
• When not being in those rooms, they would've listen to an endless broadcast.
• All of them were living one life, no real experiences.

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Tone

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Futuristic

• The futuristic element of tone is classified as owning books is illegal
• People have to concentrate strictly on what they hear and see by watching tv, and any other form of entertainment is highly frowned upon.

Dramatic

• Characters are dramatic and not believable at times.
• Clarisse is weird at the same time a wise outsider
• Beatty the secretly intellectual, mustache villain
• Mildred the feeling-less wife
• Faber the reluctantly rebellious ex-professor
• Events are apocalyptic
• Big explosions with tons of bombs and nuclear weapons.

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Mood

Gloomy

• Nothing comes to mind but depressive, gloomy, sad.
• The author makes the audience feel miserable and even question about how can someone live in such place.
• People find it easier to commit suicide than to try and to connect with each other.

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Personal Review

Rating

Feedback

• Definitely would recommend to read, as it makes you want to re-think how you want to spend your time on earth.

• Fahrenheit 451 is an impassioned warning cry against the powers of conformity and censorship.
• Ray Bradbury describes a hypothetical America in which the citizenry is totally isolated from reality.
• He implies that humankind can only expect to live and prosper by reading and recalling.

Thanks for your attention

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