There are grounds to contend that even the title is inaccurate, since contemporary sources suggest paper combusts at 450 degrees Celsius, which in Farenheit would be more than 800 degrees. This is chiefly because the book is full of assumptions and vague symbolism which can be taken many ways, and rarely does anyone come away from the book with the conclusion the author intended, which would suggest that it is a failed attempt. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.įarenheit 451 has been analyzed and reinterpreted by every successive generation to change its meaning. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
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