Fahrenheit 451 : Book Review

A dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 depicts people trying to save an unworthy world. In a futuristic America, where books are forbidden, lawbreakers are killed. Guy Montag, a firefighter who burns books to keep people innocent, starts to question the collectivist society after burning down a house along with an old woman in it. The woman, the story's Christ figure, sacrifices herself to save Montag from the silent woods of their unworthy society.

The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury presents a futuristic American city where books are banned and firemen burn any that are found. Guy Montag is featured in the opening lines of Fahrenheit 451, he is a firefighter who burns books simply because that it is his job and that a fireman's duty to destroy knowledge and encourage ignorance in order to equalize the population. In the first part of the novel Guy Montag is aligned with bad guys, but as the novel progresses Guy Montag transforms into a different person and at the end he attempts to reclaim lost pieces of the human civilization.

The dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 written by author Ray Bradbury in 1953, shows what he speculates the fate of society to be. Fahrenheit 451 takes places in the corrupt United States when people no longer read books and are satisfied only by entertainment. In Fahrenheit 451, the fire has been perceived in many different ways by the main character Guy Montag, once a fireman. Fire in Fahrenheit 451 represents both rebirth and destruction. Mythological creatures, such as the salamander and Phoenix have influenced the change in the perception of fire.

Fahrenheit 451 is about a guy named Guy Montag. Guy is a fireman who is married to Mildred. Mildred is beyond obssessed with television. All around town everyone has huge flat screens and fireproofed homes. So work for Guy is not in high demand. So now that firefighters are not facing as many fires they are now given a new job. They are now in charge of burning each and every book that they come in contact with. If he ever finds books inside a home he has to now burn the book and the house down as well. Books were seen as not useful and should not be read. He has to now burn books without questioning it.

Knowledge is the driving force behind any society. Without knowledge, a society is bound to become corrupt and nonfunctioning. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a firefighter named Montag. In this futuristic and utopian society, firefighters do not put out fires, they start them. The job of a firefighter is to find and burn books, which have been banned by the government. Montag goes along with the firefighter lifestyle until he meets a young girl named Clarisse. She causes him to start wondering about books, and Montag decides to grab one from a woman's house before it is burned down. Montag reads it and realizes how important books are to humanity. He knows that what firefighters are doing is wrong, and sets out to change it. Bradbury uses this story to portray a corrupt society that he believes will come of the real world, and some of his ideas have already come true.

This is a major event within the story, because Montag realized there is no longer anyone happy in his life and he wanted to know why. Later in the book, Montag’s fire department was called to this building supposedly filled with books. When Montag and his fellow firefighters arrived, they bombarded the building and found and woman inside guarding a large pile of books. Intrigued by a book, Montag picked one up, read a few lines and stowed it away. Soon after Montag took a book, the house was doused with Kerosene. Threatening to burn down the house with her inside, Beatty waited for her to leave, until the old lady pulled out a match and burned the house down ultimately killing herself. Thinking about why the woman would end her life for the books Montag states, "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." page 51. When the woman died she showed life's not worth living without her books like life is not worth living with knowledge. Seeking the knowledge that lies in the books, Montag attempts to solve his inner conflict, which is the main conflict of the story thus

Fahrenheit 451 is during a time in the future where books are illegal and fireman burned books instead of putting out fires. This awe-inspiring book was written by Ray Bradbury. This novel has a dystopian future and a very brave, Guy Montag. Guy Montag was a fireman who starts questioning what are inside the books that he burns and then discovers it isn’t as horrible as everyone says they are, instead Montag finds the books intriguing. Montag decides to make a plan on how he can try to make people understand that books aren’t as bad as everyone seems to think.

Imagine traveling to the future to discover the disappearance of the principles and ways of life that once were. In this futuristic world, firemen start fires to burn books instead of extinguishing them. Likewise, today’s common notion that people should read books and educate themselves reverses to the opposite where books have become illegal. The government tries to make the people believe that books only cause pain and suffering but, on the contrary, they enlighten the ignorance of the unknowing. The idea of happiness shrouds the people of this time when their euphoria is just blindness towards reality.

One of Ray Bradbury’s most popular works is a book titled Fahrenheit 451.  The main characters are Guy Montag (fireman), Clarisse McClellan (antagonist), Mildred Montag (Guy Montag’s wife), and Beatty (Chief).  Fahrenheit 451 revolves around Guy Montag’s life and shows how he develops.  Montag has been a fireman for ten years and never questioned the system.  He meets Clarisse McClellan, a girl whom questions the laws of society, and instantly starts thinking about his purpose in the world.  As said on the book itself, “Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it first published more than 50 years ago.” (Bradbury,

In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty exists as a paradoxical character which has a profound knowledge from the books he burnt but is still against the keeping of these intellectual products. Skillfully, Ray Bradbury has built up the important villain through whose arguments we can look at more aspects of the existence of books in our society, or generally the maintenance of knowledge. In the conversation between Beatty and The Montags, the fireman captain has indicated his opinions about the increasing focus on speed in the society, “redundancy” and perils of reading, “necessity” of censorship and ways to keep Man happy. These are also the thematic

The culture, characters, and theme in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 create an interesting dystopian novel that serves as a warning to future readers. The novel is set in the year 2053 and the main character Guy Montag works as a fireman. In this book they set fires upon books rather than put them out. When Montag is walking home one day after work he meets a teenage girl that will for ever change his life, Clarisse. Clarisse acts like a mirror to Montag making him question the culture of his life.

In my English class at Capital High School, we recently read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and we discussed whether freedom is really free. We wouldn’t even have to get educated at school. Nothing is really free because basically your being your own boss, and then you would only need to follow the rules. If you don’t follow those rules then you will be even more unfree.

“Critical Evaluation” is an analysis of Fahrenheit 451 written by Laurence W. Mazzeno. The source is located on enotes, a free academic website for English literature. The source contains an overview of the novel, understanding its contents, exploring its controversial elements and comparing and contrasting it to other novels written by Ray Bradbury. The source critically analyses Fahrenheit 451 leaving no room for bias. The source can be verified as academic as the website; enotes is used by teachers and students worldwide. The tone of the essay seems to be towards an older audience. The essay also compares Fahrenheit 451 to evens in WW1 and WW2. Fahrenheit 451 written in 1953, the after effects of the two world wars had a strong influence

In Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, and “There Will Come Soft Rains,” the authors, Ray Bradbury and Lois Lowry, portray a dysfunctional world that has dehumanized its people. All three literary works display a world where the minds of people are twisted. They support the theory that technology takes away everything that makes humans unique. In these stories, the society that the main characters live in is too dependent on technology, resulting in people with empty, meaningless lives.

The classic bestseller, Fahrenheit 451, was written by Ray Bradbury. The title is significant because it says that at 451 degrees fahrenheit is the temperature at which books burn. This is stated on the cover of the book, which gives the reader a clue about what the book will be about. The story is set in a suburban city in the twenty-fourth century where books have been banned from homes, schools, and just destroyed anywhere they are found. Along with the person that owns the books is in jail for going against the government policy. Third person omniscient is the narrator of the story. They tell the story and they are all knowing, so the reader knows what is going on in the minds of the characters throughout the story.