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Social Satire

Fahrenheit
451
By Ray Bradbury

Analysis of the Book
First pages:
o Montag: Enjoys burning
o Fireflies: Actually the sparks of fire
o ''Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiercy smile still gripped by his face muscles, in
the dark
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'' – Mechanical smile, supposed to enjoy it because it is part of his job,
however he’s not as passionate about the fire burning
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A mask that he wants to get rid of
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4)
o ''Are you happy?'' asked Clarisse to Montag: Montag started questioning himself
...
Clarisse’s question is the trigger question of the initial
conflict of the book
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o He was dead inside, he was neither aware of his existence, nor his happiness – Which
leads to one of the most important ideas of the book  Theme: Death
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10)
o ''He felt his smile slide away […] He was not happy
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He said the
words to himself
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He wore his happiness
like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no
way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back''  Theme: Hope
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12)
o ''The room was indeed empty
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'' – ''His wife stretched on
the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb''
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12) 
Theme: Death
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'' (p
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o Clarisse McClellan is considered antisocial by school officials and psychiatrists
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o ''Stoneman and Black drew forth their rule books, which also contained brief histories
of the Firemen of America […] Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in
the Colonies
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RULES:
1) Answer the alarm swiftly
2) Start the fire swiftly
3) Burn everything
4) Report back to firehouse immediately
5) Stand alert for other alarms
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34-35)
o Beatty: said to old woman  ''Where’s your common sense? None of those books
agree with each other
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Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived
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38)  Montag had stolen a book from this woman and hid it
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'' (p
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o Clarisse McClellan is dead: Her ''whole family moved out somewhere
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I think she’s dead
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47)

''We burnt a thousand books
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50)
o Montag:

''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
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'' (p
...

White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Burn it
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Serenity, Montag, Peace, Montag
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63)
o After killing Beatty
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o The majority in Fahrenheit 451 support the policy of book burning  it’s the fault of
the population that they don’t get the freedom to read books
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o Granger and his group are not dedicated to remembering the literature and thought of
Western Civilisation, they are more open
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At beginning of the book, Montag was dead inside because he was neither aware of
his existence nor of his happiness
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]
His wife is also dead, but she’s kept artificially alive
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12)
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Their room is not empty but his wife is almost dead, but still kept alive
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It is the one responsible of its own act

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