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Fahrenheit 451 information summary. Background info and literary elements....

Description

Title

Fahrenheit 451

Significance of the Title

The exact temperature for a book to burn. Indicates that the book will have to do with high temperatures (fire) and has themes of precision.

Publication date

1953

Author

Ray Bradbury

Facts about the Author

Born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. Inspired by other science fiction writers of his time, Bradbury created Fahrenheit 451 in 1950.

Author’s style

Descriptive, makes outlandish scenarios have a sense of normality. Combines feelings and metaphors with observations.

Theme

Censorship - an allegory to the Nazi book burnings during WWII and what life could come to with book banning.

Other lesser themes

A single theme

Characters

Guy Montag the protagonist, Mildred Montag, Captain Beatty t, Professor Faber, Clarisse McClellan.

POV

Third person, limited

Setting

The 24th century, unspecified

Plot synopsis

Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic setting, he eventually has a crisis where he reads a book and breaks out of the stupor society put him in.

Tone & atmosphere

The tone is poetic,disoriented, and bitter. The atmosphere is menacing and foreboding.

Figurative language & other devices

Foreshadowing is heavily used. Symbols and analogies for the protagonists feelings (the sieve and the sand).

Distinguishing characteristics

Novel, science fiction, is banned in many places for its outlook on book censorship.

Personal response

Can be dry and hard to read at times, has immersive technology. The tension at the climax is the best.

Vocabulary

Beatific - from christian theology, meaning blissfully happy.

Interesting quotes

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.”...