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When answering this question, remember that there are different types of oppression presented in the novel. You could start by looking at individual oppression in which one person is treated in an...
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Clarisse’s family is different because they slow down. Clarisse is a very unusual girl. She asks Montag if he is happy, and throws him completely off. She explains to Montag why her family is so...
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The pivotal moments in Fahrenheit 451 include the following: Montag’s meeting with Clarisse McClellan. Montag and Clarisse meet at the beginning of the book, so we have little idea of how his...
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To me, Montag's main dilemma in this story is how to get the life that he wants to have. How will he be able to have a life in which he can care about other people without getting in trouble with...
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In Part One, Montag calls in sick after witnessing a woman commit suicide with her books and Captain Beatty arrives at his home to give him a lecture. Captain Beatty elaborates on the beginning of...
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Montag and Faber try to confuse the Mechanical Hound’s sense of smell. Montag makes it to the river and the scent is lost when he jumps in. He floats down the river and the manhunt continues in the...
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Faber and Montag’s plan is to hide books in firemen’s houses to implicate them all over the country and arouse suspicion. When Montag first meets Faber, he is intrigued by the old man. Faber used...
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The Book People are people who preserve books for future societies by memorizing them. When Montag first reads a book, he is impressed. Books seem much more real than the television that most...
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Clarisse defines happiness as caring about things and living life on your own terms. For most of Montag’s society, happiness is defined as succumbing to mass entertainment and other mindless...
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Montag realized he had made a mistake in reading the poetry to the ladies. Faber emphasized the point when he said into the earpiece, "Fool, Montag, fool,fool. oh God you silly fool..." (pg 101)...
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In Part Two, Montag visits Faber's home in hopes of gaining insight into how to comprehend the texts that he is reading. Throughout their conversation, Faber explains to Montag how and why society...
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Near the end of part 3 of Fahrenheit 451, Montag joins a group that includes Granger. It consists of men who memorize books. In their camp outside the city, as they wait for the war to begin and...
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Your question is not specifically answered in the novel. If a person can read, a person can think. If a person can think, a person can decide for him or herself whether or not the system of...
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In Fahrenheit 451, happiness is a problematic and elusive concept. For the majority, censorship is the source of happiness because people focus their energies on entertainment and not on the...
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Clarisse has a profound effect on Montag and is the catalyst for him to begin thinking about his life and occupation of burning books. At the beginning of the novel, we witness Montag burning...
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Faber says, "Books show the pores in the face of life." He means that books allow a person to think and to form his own opinions and ideas based on reality, even if the reality isn't...
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To answer this question, we can refer to one of the conversations Montag has with Clarisse shortly before her death. In the conversation, Montag asks Clarisse why she doesn't attend school;...
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All three aspects of Freud's theory of id, ego, and super-ego are to be observed in relation to the character of Guy Montag. Montag's id, or instinct, can be seen when, out of idle curiosity, he...
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Auditory, gustatory, and tactile imagery has to do with the human senses of sound, taste, and touch. In part one of Fahrenheit 451, there are many examples of these images. First, examples of...
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"Dover Beach" is a poem about the instability of life. It speaks of loss of faith and trust. Montag had previously read it to his wife. When he brought the book out in the open in front...
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The government-approved version of history is explained to Montag by his boss, Beatty, when Montag becomes depressed at his job without understanding why. Beatty's explanation is that society...
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Early in the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist, Guy Montag gets home from work to find that his wife, Mildred has taken an entire bottle of sleeping pills, so he calls in an...
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There are two ways in which Clarisse makes Montag feel uneasy. First, she makes him feel she is judging him: He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him...
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In part 2, Montag visits Professor Faber for help comprehending the texts he is reading. Initially, Faber is reluctant to speak to Montag and is too afraid to discuss literature with him. However,...
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Please note: page numbers vary among editions. In the edition used for this answer, section 2 begins on page 69 and section 3 begins on page 111. In the first section of Fahrenheit 451, after...
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The program that Mildred and her guests, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles, watch is quite odd. It is from "The Sieve and the Sand" - pgs. 93-94 in my edition. The "wonderful" program (as the ladies...
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Montag’s path from conformity to intellectual freedom is perhaps the strongest theme in the whole novel. Rather than give you the quotations, I will offer some guidance on key scenes, so that you...
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It says a lot about the dystopian society portrayed in Fahrenheit 451 that the act of thinking is held in such contempt. There's more than an element of sarcasm in Mildred's voice when she says of...
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In this part of Fahrenheit 451's second chapter, Montag and Faber start discussing a potential act of rebellion against this futuristic society, in which they would hide books in the houses of the...
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In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury comments on the depth of relationships people have. In this society, things like front porches no longer exist because people don't sit out to chat or meet their...
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Montag's job in Fahrenheit 451 is that of a fireman. He is charged with the task of burning books. This act is done in the hopes of calming the masses by eliminating material that may drive them to...
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The primary themes in the second chapter of Fahrenheit 451 are learning to read the content and understand the meanings in books, the importance of resisting the social norms that enforce...
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The famous science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury tells of a dystopian future in which books are illegal. Instead of putting out fires, firemen are trained to burn books and sometimes...
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In Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag lives in a dystopian society which is completely reliant on technology. The superficial populace spends the majority of their day consuming...
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Propaganda can be defined as either twisting the truth or lying outright in service of a political or other agenda. Propaganda is revealed through Beatty, the voice of orthodoxy in the novel, and...
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What structural and literary devices are found from pages 71 to 101 of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451? Consider devices such as metaphor, simile, imagery, personification, repetition, symbolism, juxtaposition, allusion, hyperbole, foreshadowing,...
Please note: The page numbers provided refer to the 1996 Del Rey/Ballantine edition, in which part 2 begins on page 71. Ray Bradbury uses flashback for Montag’s memory of first meeting Professor...
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There are several ways to approach the subject of mentoring in the first part of the novel. In this section, Guy Montag is shown as having entered a period of questioning and self-doubt about his...
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The element of the restriction of information is contained within Fahrenheit 451 through the theme of censorship. Books are banned, and independent thought and introspection are effectively...
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The science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel about a future society with an authoritarian government that forbids the reading of books. Instead of putting out...
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The old woman, who lights the match that leads to her own demise, is a catalyst for great change in Montag's life. When he met Clarisse and was so moved by her, and realized after speaking to her...
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In part 1 of Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag participates in burning up the old woman inside her house after she refuses to leave her books. After many years as a fireman, this experience rattles him,...
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There are a number of running themes in Fahrenheit 451 that are typical of dystopian literature. Here are a few examples to consider: Conformity The society outlined in the book heavily encourages...
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In order to sleep, Mildred not only relies heavily on sleeping pills, she also relies on little earphones that she puts in her ears, that constantly plays music, entertainment, news and talk that...
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At the beginning of the novel, Montag thinks that their relationship is just fine; in fact, he declares to himself that he is perfectly happy. However, when he gets home that first night, to find...
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Throughout the course of the book, Bradbury infuses Montag's hands with a life of their own, almost like they have their own mind. Symbolically speaking, they represent Montag's true desires; they...
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Beatty wanted to die because he felt that life was not worth living. In Montag’s world, people committed suicide constantly. Beatty was more intelligent and more aware than most. He knew that...
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After Montag burns his house then commits murder, burning up his boss, Beattie, and other firefighters, he first goes to his friend Faber's house. On the way there, he listens to his "seashell"...
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The so-called iceberg theory was developed by Ernest Hemingway. In Death in the Afternoon, he stated that within a given work, a writer should reveal only significant parts of the information. He...
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At first, Montag is a proud fireman, loyally and faithfully carrying out the orders of the authorities to round up and destroy books. But after a particularly nasty incident in which an old lady...
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One of the premises of postmodern literature is that there are no new stories left to be told, and the stories we create are all new versions of already-told stories. This fits with the question...
