Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

• Age 30 - interaction with a policeman

• Evolution of the story

• Writing of the story

Context

Ray Bradbury

• Born - Waukegan, Illinois in August 22nd, 1920

• Childhood - fire station & book burnings in China, Russia & Germany

• Received high school education in Los Angeles, but considered libraries to be his higher eductation

• Started writing Fahrenheit 451 in spring, 1950

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"I was warped early by Ray Bradbury... As a young teenager, I devoured Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451."

Margaret Attwood

cHARACTERS

Guy montag

"captain" Beatty

Mildred Montag

Clarisse Mcclellan

Mrs Clara Phelps Mrs Ann Bowles

StonemanBlack

Granger

Faber

Mechanical Hound

Setting

Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an undisclosed city in the USA, during an uudisclosed time in the future

Guy Montag Meets Clarisse McClellan who asks him questions that change his mind about society

OVERVIEW

Mildred attempts suicide by overdosing, but survives.

A citizen is burnt inside her hoouse with her books, despite Guy trying to covince her to leave.

Mildred reveals that Clarisse has died after being hit by a car

Beatty visits Montag's and reminds him about books eg why they're banned and what is done when someone is ound in possession of one

Guy shows Mildred his books immediately afterwards. Mildred does not like this.

Guy visits Faber, and they have a discussion about society. Faber gives Guy an earpiece so they can communicate

Guy goes home to find Mildred engaging in "small-talk" with two of her friends, he gets bored and so reads them poetry. The friends leave, upset but not knowing why,.

Whilst at the fire-station, whem he finds out that has been turned in by Mildred.

He goes to his house to find Mildred packing to leave. He is forced to burn his own house down and is then arrested

Panicking, Guy turns the flamethrower on Beatty, kills him, knocks out the other two firemen, and "kills" the Mechanical Hound.

Through a portable TV, they watch the mechanical Hound kill an innocent man the police have pretended is Guy. An atomic bomb destroys the city, but they are safe in the wilderness.

Escaping, Guy meets with Faber who gives him fake clothes. Guy floats downstream and meets Granger and the rebels.

Key THemes

• Censorship
• Knowledge & Ignorance
• Technology & Media
• Conformity & Identity

• Dehumanisation

"it was a pleasure to burn"

Quotes

Relations to other SOcieties

The Handmaid's Tale

Nineteen Eighty-Four

• Dehumanisation
• Language and words prohibited and politicised
• Different points of view

• Words as a means of control
• Different endings
• Different point of view

• Attitude towards books and media
• More information that we have access to
• Different types of media

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