The imagery in Fahrenheit 451 was a little bit ironic. The imagery in this book were animals and nature. In this society everybody hates nature, except for a select few. Nobody really wants to go outside and enjoy it. They would rather stay inside and watch television. They would rather follow orders of the society rather than just go independently and think on their own. Anyway Bradbury puts Clarisse into the book who loves nature. When Clarisse was outside tasting the rain she saw Montag and asked him to try the rain with her. The experience that Montag had changed him throughout the whole story. It made him realize that he did not really mind nature that much. Clarisse made him think that way. When Bradbury wrote, "And that awful flower the other day, the dandelion! It had summed up everything hadn't it? What a shame! You're not in love with anyone" (Bradbury 44). As you can tell, Clarisse loves nature and that is the kinds of thing that made Montag think about his life. Also another example of nature is when Montag gets caught with the books and he is headed into the country where he has never been before because nobody likes nature in the society. Well the country showed him freedom. Freedom was a thing that he had never experienced before. Being couped up in that society for so long he was able to think on his own and do things on his own. He did not have to have things watching him twenty-four seven.
Another part of the imagery were the animals. The animal imagery in this book was ironic. Even though the society hates nature and loves technology, many of the mean mechanical devices that they use are named after animals. Just like the Electric-Eyed Snake machine which the society used in order to pump out Mildred's stomach after she tried to kill herself. Also another machine that they used animal imagery on was the Mechanical Hound. The Mechanical Hound was used for attacking people or to scare them in order to follow the law in the society. The Mechanical Hound came in the book once Montag burnt Captain Beatty to a crisp. Imagery played a big part in this story and it even had a little irony in it also.
Bibliography
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.
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