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Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag's wife, Mildred, is hopelessly addicted to modern technology, especially TV, which she spends an inordinate amount of time watching on giant screens around the house. To a disturbingly...
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As the lead player in this massive televised manhunt, Montag has managed to outwit his pursuers and make his way across the river. He's been helped in his escape by the fact that everybody was...
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Montag and Clarisse have drastically different lives when they initially meet at the beginning of the novel. Life in Montag's home is mundane, unexciting, and routine. Mildred spends the majority...
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One theme we can take from this part of the chapter “The Sieve and the Sand” is that part of what it means to be human is our ability and our willingness to learn from our mistakes. In his...
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In the world of Fahrenheit 451, technology, and television in particular, has become a constant distraction from and replacement for personal relationships or intimacy between people. Technology...
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In Fahrenheit 451, when the firemen are bored, "they set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound." The Hound "lives" in a kennel in the firehouse. It has eight legs and neon...
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There are a couple of reasons why Montag gets sick and needs to take some time off work. First of all, during the previous night, Montag and the other firemen set fire to a woman who refused to...
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Fahrenheit 451
Faber is a character in the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Faber says that there is "nothing magical" about books themselves, but only in what they say. A valuable book is one which has...
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In part 1, after the book-burning at the woman's home, Beatty pays a visit to Montag. There are two reasons for this visit. First of all, Montag is sick and does not go to work that evening. This...
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When Montag visits Faber's home in part two, he attempts to gain Faber's help comprehending the literature he is reading. Montag also asks Faber to help him overthrow the fireman structure. Faber...
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At the beginning of the novel, Montag witnesses a woman commit suicide by lighting herself on fire while the firemen burn her books. The experience traumatizes Montag, who begins to contemplate the...
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When Montag initially visits Faber's home, he suggests that they get a printing press and begin making copies of illegal books to distribute throughout society. Faber immediately tells Montag that...
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When Montag goes to set fire to Mrs. Blake's house, he takes one of her books that he finds in the attic. What is really interesting about this particular moment is how Montag seems unable to stop...
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Throughout Fahrenheit 451, the idea of censorship and its consequential dangers is often brought about. In the futuristic dystopian society of Bradbury's novel, literature and all books are banned...
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This paragraph is meant to show how quickly Montag is changing his view of the world and how, in this moment, he is overwhelmed by that change. He has just met the lively and curious Clarisse, who...
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When Montag visits Faber to ask for help comprehending texts, Faber calls him a "hopeless romantic" and tells Montag, "It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books"...
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Captain Beatty tells Montag that he dreamed of having a furious debate on books, which is meant to confuse and deter Montag from pursuing knowledge and reading literature. Beatty says that in his...
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This quotation uses the literary device of synecdoche, a term which means that the part stands in for the whole. In this case, the words "eyes and elbows and mouths" are used to mean human beings....
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In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, protagonist Guy Montag starts to question the way his society operates. A young girl, Clarisse McClellan, asks Montag questions that spark his...
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When the novel opens, neither Mildred nor Montag are living life fully. Mildred spends most of her time watching mindless television on giant view screens. She doesn't experience nature or real...
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Montag has reached the point where his heart is no longer in his work. He's become fed up with destroying books and burning the properties of those found reading them. So one day he calls in sick....
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After analyzing his life, Montag realizes that he has a meaningless existence and attempts to find possible answers to life by reading literature. Montag believes that the content of books might...
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During a conversation with Montag, Captain Beatty admits that he once pursued knowledge and read an extensive amount of literature, only to end up more confused and distraught than he was before he...
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To understand more about Mildred and Montag's relationship, take a look at this quote from part 1: There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly...
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Beatty believes that sports are good for society because sports, like cartoons and pictures, reduce the need for the mind to work and to learn. Books are dangerous because they encourage thinking,...
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In this scene from part 3, Montag is fleeing the authorities by escaping from the city. Exhausted by his journey, he dreams of being in a hayloft and, at the bottom of the stair, finding a glass of...
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There are many events and plot points in Fahrenheit 451 that impact Montag significantly and force him to change. As the novel begins, Montag is an ordinary fireman who mindlessly burns piles of...
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In Fahrenheit 451, the only family we see up close is Montag's, but we get insights into the typical family from Montag's conversation with Clarisse. She tells him how different her family is: Oh,...
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To answer this question, take a look at Part One when Beatty goes to visit Montag at home. During his speech, Beatty makes a number of criticisms about schools, universities, and printed material....
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When Montag stumbles upon his wife's empty bottle of sleeping pills, he goes into a panic and immediately calls for help. Still feeling love for his wife, Montag is concerned for her well-being and...
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Beatty, who is well-read, dislikes the contradictory nature of books. But, like the devil who can quote scripture, Beatty manipulates excerpts from famous works to his advantage. Having told the...
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The character of Clarisse McClellan is significant to the novel because she influences Montag to begin questioning his life and analyzing his existence. At the beginning of the novel, Clarisse...
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During Montag's first interaction with Clarisse, the reader gets a sense of his mannerisms. Montag attempts to portray himself as an amiable person who does not take his job too seriously. Montag...
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In part one, Captain Beatty visits Montag's home and discusses the history of the firefighter regime and why the citizens disregard literature. Beatty makes the keen observation that once...
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Here are some quotes that may prove useful: We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all...
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Different teachers are probably going to choose a slightly different set of 4 quotes depending on that teacher's personal reaction toward the book or personal teaching strengths. I think Beatty...
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Early in the novel, Bradbury encourages us to identify with Clarisse. Unlike most people in this society, this young woman walks outside at night in the moonlight. Montag is taken with her and how...
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Very near the beginning of the book Fahrenheit 451, the main character, Montag, comes home to find that his wife Mildred has overdosed on sleeping pills. When he comes into their bedroom, he at...
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The words you quoted are spoken by Granger to Montag at the end of the story. The "odd minority" refers to Granger's fellow intellectuals. They are said to be a "minority crying in the...
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Montag’s desire is to attain the knowledge and wisdom contained in books. He also wants to contribute to the preservation of such knowledge for the sake of future generations in the face of the...
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In Fahrenheit 451, Granger and the other men and women at the camp of intellectual outlaws carry their books by not carrying them at all; they memorize the texts in order to avoid physically...
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During Montag and Clarisse's first conversation, she tells him that she had heard that long ago firemen used to put out fires instead of starting them. Montag's initial reaction is to laugh at...
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In Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist Guy Montag murders fire chief Beatty in an act of impulsive desperation. After the firemen are deployed to Montag's house, Beatty reveals that Montag's hidden...
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In Bradbury's dystopian society, books are censored, and intellectual pursuits are considered illegal. The population is completely ignorant, and the citizens are addicted to mass media and...
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Throughout Bradbury's dystopian society, information is restricted by censoring books, arresting intellectuals, and the overwhelming influence of state-controlled media outlets. The fireman agency...
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Ray Bradbury prevents his narrative from becoming too pessimistic because there is a subtle mood of hope generated through characters and incidents in the plot. In other dystopian works, such as...
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There are a number of similarities and differences between Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Beginning with the similarities, both novels tell the story of a male protagonist who starts out as part of the...
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Towards the end of the novel, Montag floats downriver, where he eventually joins a group of traveling intellectuals camping out in the wilderness. The hobo intellectuals welcome Montag into their...
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Throughout Ray Bradbury's masterpiece Fahrenheit 451, the idea of literature—and books in general—becoming illegal plays a pivotal role in the plot and underlying meaning of the novel. The...
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In Fahrenheit 451, Montag is perhaps best known for taking risks. He takes a risk when he steals books and hides them behind the grille of his ventilator. He also takes a risk when he starts...
