Fahrenheit 451 Summary

This prophetic novel, first written and published in the early 1950s, is set in a future where books, and the ideas they represent and manifest, are burned to prevent disruptions in society. Its central character, Guy Montag, is a fireman responsible to that society for ensuring those burnings takes place, but an unexpected chain of events leads him to question both himself and the society in which he lives. Through its...

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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Books Burn
by Ray Bradbury
When Ray Bradbury (1920-) graduated from high school, he was already committed to a writing career in science fiction. From the b...
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Ray Bradbury (born 1920) was among the first authors to combine the concepts of science fiction with a sophisticated prose style. Often described as economical yet poetic, Bradbury's fiction conveys a...
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Biography EssayAlthough Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and although his stories and themes have permeated all areas of American culture as have those of no...
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Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer who has unjustly suffered from critical neglect. In a sense he has been the victim of a genre. To consider his work as "science fiction" or "fantasy"--no matter h...
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In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, the author has added the effect of parallelism of today's society and his fictional society in which Guy Montag, the main character, lives. There a...
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According to Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance," "To be great is to be misunderstood." In other words, if we do not conform to the standards of society we will be misunderstood and if we act...
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"Science fiction fans point to him with ill-concealed pride, for Bradbury, more than any other writer, has proved to the world that science fiction has come to age and deserves major critical attenti...
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Fire represents the extinguishing of thinking, imagining, and appreciating. Although knowledge can cause conflict, understanding of the past can prevent man from making similar errors in the present a...
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In our lives we all face stepping-stones that will make or break us. The decisions that we make at these stepping-stones will be very hard and dramatic. In the story "Fahrenheit 451" authored by Ray...
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The people of the town in Fahrenheit 451 were controlled by a total lack of concern. They never learned to think beyond their forms of entertainment. The people on their television programs b...
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In a world where all books must be burned society should save three. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens contains potent messages about money, life, and greed. Also, William Golding's book, The Lor...
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Relationships in the world tumble and fall, and when that happens, new relationships form again, either to be better or worst. This is needed in the world or else society could be totally changed or ...
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In Fahrenheit 451 by author Ray Bradbury, fireman Guy Montag has to make fires rather than put them out. The time of this story takes place during the twenty-first century, the future in an American c...
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In an age where we are gaining knowledge at an incredible speed, faster than ever before, one would think that we are headed toward an era of even greater learning and understanding.
But after read...
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Happiness seems to be the ultimate goal. After all, who would not want to be happy? So, it seems that if you eliminate unhappiness, you will indirectly fulfill the ultimate goal. Once unhappiness is g...
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As people read Fahrenheit 451, it can scare them because many topics in this book relates directly to their lives. When they read about the Mechanical Hound, they could remember the Sony AIBO...
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In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Montag changes his outlook on life because of what he learns from three female characters in the novel. Montag begins as being a brainless fireman and by the end of th...
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A fire burns, a fire destroys, and a fire gives rebirth. Water is cool, water is cleansing, and water gives new life. Blood fills the body of every mammal that has ever set foot on Earth, and along w...
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an astounding, yet heart-wrenching parable, that describes what the future will become if people permit its decline. His concept is not at all abstract as he depicts...
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a thought-provoking insight into what our future may become. Seen predominantly through the eyes of the main character, a fireman named Guy Montag, this novel illus...
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Fahrenheit 451... is the temperature at which books burn? This story takes the reader into the future, where nobody needs books anymore. Books may ask questions that often lead to revolution. Accordin...
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Some people have a closed mind and are unaware of what is going on around them. This is the case in the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, in which the thirty-year-old protagonist, Montag, is una...
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The book that will be reviewed is Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury. The author used the effect of parallelism extremely well by showing the similarities of both then and now. In the ...
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"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it." This quote first spoken by James Michener truly defines the plot of Farenheit 451.The `light' was alw...
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In the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, a character named Guy Montag experiences internal and external conflicts in his search for his identity. In the beginning of the story Montag take...
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In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, several characters change through out the story. Characters such as: Guy Montag, Captain Beatty, and Professor Faber. Each character has an extreme change. The change...
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Ray Bradbury forges intense images of death and destruction, of burning intensity in his novel, Fahrenheit 451. He creates his insane futuristic world of firemen who burn books to hide the truths by ...
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury provides a view of the future for the world and for humanity. Written in 1954, it looks at the 21st Century on Earth and surprisingly some of the predictions for society...
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury contains a complex story about a society in which many things are different than the one we have come to know today. The story presented by Bradbury has many themes; a...
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At the beginning of the novel Montag is completely convinced of the system and its ideology. Corresponding to his duty as a fierman he destroys knowledge by burning books and promotes ignorance. Sente...
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In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, fire is used as a symbol throughout the entire novel. The symbolism of fire is shown when the old woman quoted Latimer as her house was beginning to be bu...
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"All you need is love." The Beetles said it best. And that rings true today, yet the sad truth is that some societies are lacking love of any kind, such as the society portrayed in Ray Bradbury's Fahr...
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Imagine a society where books are burned into ashes, a world where people do not have time to make love with their partners and a cruel society where people have no rights or freedom to express their ...
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"Every act of creation, is first an act of destruction."
- Pablo Picasso
Since nothing can be created without first destroying what was previously there, the very ironic statement "Every act of crea...
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Do you think that living in a technical world would destroy society? Well, in Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, technology is very advanced and seems to get people's attention. "You're not important...
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Losing his mind, job and family, Montag finds himself running away from everything he knows. In Fahrenheit 451 the main character goes through many tough situations throughout the story. His prob...
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In Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic world is portrayed. In both books, Bradbury portrays two worlds, one of censorship and the other of colonization. Both societi...
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Everyone in the world influences others in many various manners. The influence can be minor or extremely significant but yet they always have an impact. An example of this can be found in Fahrenhe...
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As a civilization in the 21st century, technology has helped shape our society. Without even realizing it, technology affects a lot of what we do and when we do it. One of the most popular advances i...
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The book "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury was butchered in the movie, I do not think it went by the book very well.
One of the ways that the movie butchered the book was by that it did not do the app...
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Fahrenheit 451, a book by Ray Bradbury, is a social commentary written to expose the flaws in our government and media. It shows how the government will bend to the will of the corporate sector if o...
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Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451 is relevant to today's issues in our society in many ways. Today people are so fascinated with electronics and rely on computers to complete daily tasks instead of...
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