Friday, August 19, 2011

History- Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is taken place in futuristic America. Which means it does not reflect the history of the time period and setting. However, you can talk about the social issues of this era. Like I said before in this novel people do not want to go out on their own. They do not want to make their own decisions, go out on their own, they do not want to take charge. They are followers which mean that they get nowhere in life. Guy Montag tries to stop following and take charge on his own. He is tired of people telling him what not to do and what to do. The society during this specific futuristic America is controlling. They do not want people to read books, they do not want people to like nature, or have normal conversations. Instead they would rather have them burn books, stay inside and watch television on wall-size T.V sets.

When Bradbury puts in, "You reading up on fireman theory? Theory, hell, said Montag. It's poetry" (Bradbury 97). This is when Mildred, Guys wife who spends her day watching television, is having friends over and they spot out that Guy has a book. They think this is the worst thing in the world because a fireman out of all people should not have a book. So when Mrs. Phelps, Mildred's friend, says, You reading up on fireman theory, she means that he is going against the law with reading this book. Guy shows that he is very strong to go against the law.

The symbolic significance in this book was that Bradbury was showing us how our future was going to look. If we keep going downhill from reading and social life the future would look like this. That is the point that Bradbury is trying to get across to readers. If we could just slim down the amount of television we are watching these days we would be a whole lot better off in the long run.




Bibliography






Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.

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