FIRE PRESENTATION

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheint 451

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Themes

Characters

Context

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

COntext

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• 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

About the Author

1953

1947-1991

Cold War

Fahrenheint 451

1947

The rise of television

1939-1945

Wolrd War II

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Key facts about the book

• Full Title : Fahrenheit 451

• When Written : 1947-1953

• Where : The United States

• When Published : 1953

• Literary Period : Modern American

• Genre : Dystopian novel

• Setting : An unnamed city in America in the future

• Point of View : Third person

Summary

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

“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.”

Characters

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Faber

Clarisse

Guy

Granger

Beatty

Mildred

“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

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

Censhorship

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

Mass media

Themes

• Self-expression
• Question our purpose
• Free thought

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

Individuality

Conformity

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• Uncomfortable thoughts
• Experiences
• Fear
• Independent for society

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

Happiness

Distraction

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• Cowardly hidden
• Observing
• Passive

• Speaking out
• Reckless vs intelligent action

Inaction

Action

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

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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