Fahrenheit 451 Introduction

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

04. Point of View & Genre

• 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

A Little more personal:

About the Author:

• As a Youth:
• Loved Horror Movies - LOVED them
• After meeting Mr. Electrico at a carnival in 1932. Wrote Everyday since… started at age 12.
• Moved to LA; published first short story in 1938
• “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma.”
• 25 before he asked a girl out - Maggie
• Coffee > Cocktails > Love > Marriage > 56 years of happiness
• Didn’t Like Cars: never got a driver's license
• “Cars kill more people than wars do.”

• 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.

03. Main Characters No. 1

Montag ( Protagonist )

• 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. 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 (Minor)

• 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.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.

03. Main Characters No. 1

Captain Beatty

• 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.

Clarisse McClellan

• 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.

Secondary Characters:

02.Granger

03.Old Woman

01.Professor Faber

04.Mrs. Bowels

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.

06. METODOLOGÍA

Man vs. Society

• 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

Conflict

06. METODOLOGÍA

Man vs. Self

Conflict

• 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.

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