Symbols found in "Fahrenheit 451"
- Mirrors
The mirror represents the discoverment of true feelings within a character, for example in he following fragment, "..Millie's face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all
https://www.theadvocates.org/looking-mirror/
by itself in the room, touching nothing...."(p.74), shows how the mirror acts as a tools for self discoverment. Also in some characters, the mirror are a subject of repulsion and a mocking object, as the following quote shows "Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror-factory first and put out
nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them."(p. 76).
- The Phoenix
The phoenix represents not only the mankind´s cycle of ups and downs but it represents the development and resurrection of Montag´s intellectual capacity and his spiritual self.""Phoenix.""What?""There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the Phoenix never had. "(p. 76)
The mirror represents the discoverment of true feelings within a character, for example in he following fragment, "..Millie's face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all
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| https://www.theadvocates.org/looking-mirror/ |
by itself in the room, touching nothing...."(p.74), shows how the mirror acts as a tools for self discoverment. Also in some characters, the mirror are a subject of repulsion and a mocking object, as the following quote shows "Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror-factory first and put out
nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them."(p. 76).
The phoenix represents not only the mankind´s cycle of ups and downs but it represents the development and resurrection of Montag´s intellectual capacity and his spiritual self.""Phoenix.""What?""There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the Phoenix never had. "(p. 76)
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| http://www.hottmz.com/rise-of-the-phoenix/ |
- Blood
In the book "Fahrenheit 451" the blood represents the most inner part of one`s true self. The blood is a materialization of all our feelings and thoughts. For example, the following citation "This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum"(p. 6), shows how even when Mildred´s old blood was replaced, her feelings or emptiness never left.
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| http://www.giantbomb.com/blood/3055-1422/forums/object-blood-in-games-15242/ |
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