FIRE PRESENTATION

Fahrenheint 451

Ray Bradbury

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Context

Characters

Themes

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COntext

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

About the Author

• Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
• American writer
• Published more than 400 short stories
• National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2000)
• Retro-Hugos award in 1954

timeline

Wolrd War II

1939-1945

The rise of television

1947

Fahrenheint 451

Cold War

1947-1991

1953

Key facts about the book

• Literary Period : Modern American

• Genre : Dystopian novel

• Setting : An unnamed city in America in the future

• Point of View : Third person

• Full Title : Fahrenheit 451

• When Written : 1947-1953

• Where : The United States

• When Published : 1953

Summary

• Dystopian future
• Book-ban and censorship
• Mindless entertainment
• Firefighters : burn books
• Rebellion
• Resilience of ideas

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Characters

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”

Mildred

Beatty

Guy

Granger

Clarisse

Faber

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Themes

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”

Themes

Censhorship

Mass media

• Burning of books and homes
• Self-censhorpship
• Minorities = "special interest groups"
• Intellectual = swear word

• Living rooms with entire walls as television screens
• TV shows serial dramas
• Sheashell ear thimbles
• Obscure veil

Conformity

Individuality

vs

• Distraction
• Pleasure-seeking
• Hedonism
• Thrill-seeking

• Self-expression
• Question our purpose
• Free thought

Distraction

Happiness

vs

• Shallow
• Indiferent
• Conforming
• Profound dispair
• Vicvious cycle

• Uncomfortable thoughts
• Experiences
• Fear
• Independent for society

Action

Inaction

vs

• Speaking out
• Reckless vs intelligent action

• Cowardly hidden
• Observing
• Passive

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Sources

• Litcharts
• Goodreads (quotes)
• Genially
• Sparknotes
• Cliffsnotes
• Wikipedia

Granger

Scholar outcast

• Left the civilasation
• Acted on his convictions
• Memorize works of literatures.

Captain Beatty

The antagonist, Montag's boss

• Complex character
• Fire captain
• Remember many quotes from books

• Represent the authority and the society
• "Intellectual wearing the uniform of the intellectual's worst enemy"

Professor Faber

Former English teacher

• Describe himself as a coward
• Passively watched the society change
• Helps Montage counterpoint Beatty's argument
• Named after a famous publisher (Faber & Faber) and a brand of pencils (Faber Castell)

Guy Montag

The protagonist, a firefighter

• Third-generation fireman
• Very proud of his job
• Growing dissatisfaction
• Forms strong-attachements
• Determined to break free for the oppression of ignorance

Mildred Montag

Guy's wife

• Shallow and unhappy
• Always surrounded by TVs or sounds
• Drows in mindless distractions
• Drives very fast

Clarisse McClellan

Montag's teenaged neigbour

• Unlike the others
• Free spirit
• Prefer to take life slowly and enjoy her sourrounding
• Questioning the world