Motifs found in "Fahrenheit 451"
- Religion
"Professor Faber, I have a rather odd question to ask. How many copies of the Bible are left in
this country?"(p.35). In the book Fahrenheit 451 there are many references of the bible such as "Lord, how they’ve changed it in our ‘parlors’ these days. Christ is one of the ‘family’ now. I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?” (p.81), "He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine."(p.49) and "He touched it, just to be sure it was real. He waded in and stripped in darkness to the skin,
splashed his body, arms, legs, and head with raw liquor; drank it and snuffed some up his nose.
Then he dressed in Faber's old clothes and shoes. He tossed his own clothing into the river and
watched it swept away. Then, holding the suitcase, he walked out in the river until there was no
bottom and he was swept away in the dark"(p.65). All of the are allusion towards different passages or actions made by Christians (direct allusion to the holy family, the miracle of Canaan and the baptisim respectively). Through religion, Bradbury shows how a fundamental part of the ancient society had been forgotten through ignorance and avoided through censorship.
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- Fire
The idea of fire present in the book can be ambivalent, because it can represent destruction and damage but it also could be interpreted as an idea for light and guidance. As for light and guidance as the following fragment shows, Montag compares positively, the attitude of Clarisse with the light of a candle, which is fire "But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle."(p.3). As for being a destructive force, the following citation explains how Montag used to admire the destructive capacity the fire has, which was used to burn books and knowledge, "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black"(p.1). It produces in the reader a feeling of fear because of its capacity of destroying everything the mankind has achieved, or recorded.
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"Professor Faber, I have a rather odd question to ask. How many copies of the Bible are left in
this country?"(p.35). In the book Fahrenheit 451 there are many references of the bible such as "Lord, how they’ve changed it in our ‘parlors’ these days. Christ is one of the ‘family’ now. I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?” (p.81), "He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine."(p.49) and "He touched it, just to be sure it was real. He waded in and stripped in darkness to the skin,
splashed his body, arms, legs, and head with raw liquor; drank it and snuffed some up his nose.
Then he dressed in Faber's old clothes and shoes. He tossed his own clothing into the river and
watched it swept away. Then, holding the suitcase, he walked out in the river until there was no
bottom and he was swept away in the dark"(p.65). All of the are allusion towards different passages or actions made by Christians (direct allusion to the holy family, the miracle of Canaan and the baptisim respectively). Through religion, Bradbury shows how a fundamental part of the ancient society had been forgotten through ignorance and avoided through censorship.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Religion |
- Fire
The idea of fire present in the book can be ambivalent, because it can represent destruction and damage but it also could be interpreted as an idea for light and guidance. As for light and guidance as the following fragment shows, Montag compares positively, the attitude of Clarisse with the light of a candle, which is fire "But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle."(p.3). As for being a destructive force, the following citation explains how Montag used to admire the destructive capacity the fire has, which was used to burn books and knowledge, "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black"(p.1). It produces in the reader a feeling of fear because of its capacity of destroying everything the mankind has achieved, or recorded.
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| http://kgncnewsnow.com/second-alarm-fire-red-river-steakhouse/ |
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