Examples Of Figurative Language In Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a book by Ray Bradbury, written after World War II and it examines the corruption of technology in a dystopian society. This book explains how a dystopian society works and how people are so attached to television and cars and do not enjoy the natural world. People in a dystopian society are full of fear and sadness. They do not have equality or freedom, they are all so soaked up in technology that it is illegal for them to do simple stuff, such as, reading books. The book, Fahrenheit 451 explains how firefighters start fires rather than stopping them. A firefighter’s job is do burn books, since books are illegal to have because they go against the power of technology and modernization. In a dystopian society, people should be unhappy, unequal, violent, and brutalized and that is what is exactly being seen throughout this book. As Ray Bradbury captures the attention of many readers, he captures our attention on how the future could be if technology would become so extreme. Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451 is not about control, but it is a novel about how television destroys curiosity in reading literature.

The tone of the excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 is desperate, as portrayed through two literary devices. Figurative language is used to express an idea by utilizing a unique set of words. “ He (Montag) felt his smile slide away, fold over and down on itself like tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out” (Bradbury 9) is a hyperbole. The previous quote’s meaning was that the smile disappeared, as it was too happy for Montag to handle; but it was wonderful nonetheless. By stating that the fantastic candle had blown out, means that Montag was sorrowful to have his smile leave and, therefore, wanted it back. The quote his accurately depicts to the tone. Descriptions used

Figurative language is powerful, and Bradbury is not afraid of a metaphor. He uses an excessive amount to orchestrate

Of all literary works regarding dystopian societies, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is perhaps one of the most bluntly shocking, insightful, and relatable of them. Set in a United States of the future, this novel contains a government that has banned books and a society that constantly watches television. However, Guy Montag, a fireman (one who burns books as opposed to actually putting out fires) discovers books and a spark of desire for knowledge is ignited within him. Unfortunately his boss, the belligerent Captain Beatty, catches on to his newfound thirst for literature. A man of great duplicity, Beatty sets up Montag to ultimately have his home destroyed and to be expulsed from the city. On the other hand, Beatty is a much rounder

The public of Fahrenheit 451 are seemingly unaware of how much they are being controlled and it takes only a few moments of clarity for the main character, Montag, to realize how corrupt his own society is. Bradbury uses his own life experiences of WWII and the Nazi book burnings for inspiration in the creation of his top-selling novel. Fahrenheit 451 is as entertaining as it is informative and a warning to the world about the dangers of censorship and protecting the freedom of

The author Bradbury uses a lot of literary devices in his novel. The most obvious literary technique is a dialogue. Throughout the book, Bradbury builds up the setting

In the beginning of the novel, Ray Bradbury focuses on figurative language to convey his theme. Throughout the first part, Bradbury uses many forms of figurative language such similes, metaphors, and irony. One example of figurative language is on page 56, with the quote “there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given a new job, as custodians of our peace of mind.” (Bradbury 56). This quote is a metaphor because it compares the new job

In the year 1953, Ray Bradbury published a book titled Fahrenheit 451. This book explores a dystopian world where houses are completely fireproof, and instead of putting out fires, firemen start them. They do this for one reason, which is to destroy all books. The author has many things he wanted to convey, one of which is that books are people. The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that books encompass the author’s entire life and their opinions. Along with this, Bradbury was trying to show that by reading a book, the reader also shares these experiences.

Bradbury gives a description of Mildred with the employment of metaphors to characterize Mildred as entranced by technology in order to establish a norm in Bradbury’s dystopian society. The technology seen, the Seashells, obtain full control over Mildred, keeping her up through the night and day. Montag visualizes his wife lying on the bed, with the Seashells on, describes the Seashells as “an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind”(Bradbury 12). The ocean overtakes Mildred’s mind, keeping her awake and constantly

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 tells a story of the tyranny of government and the dystopian view of literacy that is defined through book banning in a futuristic society. The main character of this novel, Guy Montag, is a government official that is charged with locating rebellions individuals that possess books. These government watchdogs must then burn the

The world of burning books, talking parlor walls, and speeding cars captivated the readers who read Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. Through the use of figurative language, Bradbury creates a complex, yet a dull-minded, society where literature and human philosophy are degenerating. Bradbury illustrates this society through the protagonist, Guy Montag, who develops and changes his mentality on his society throughout the novel after realizing the truth behind it. However, Bradbury does not only paint the truth about Montag’s society, but he also conveys a representation of our society through the media of Fahrenheit 451. The media of Fahrenheit 451 displays a rather disillusioned, ‘perfect’ image of how this society portrays itself to be even though it is the opposite.

Bradbury uses figurative language to express his concern about how powerful governments manipulate citizens. For instance, when everyone was watching the chase, the announcer says, “Police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows: Everyone in every house in every street open a front or rear door or look from the windows… He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like grey animals peering from electric caves, faces with grey colourless eyes, grey tongues and grey thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face“ (131-132). The figurative language used in the context is a simile, comparing the people looking outside to grey animals, with grey faces, that are mindless and obedient. The color gray is referred to the blandness people have become used to. Everyone is grey, dissatisfied and ordinary. Just like if they were like mindless pets, obeying what they were being told to do by their owner. The government is the owner of the pet (people), being forced to obey the government's commands.

“Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator. He caught her, shrieking. He held her and she tried to fight away from him scratching,” (63). In the novel Fahrenheit 451 follows the protagonist, Guy Montag, and his interactions with society discouraging and encouraging his discovery of the illegal books. Along the way he understands who are the poisonous people in his dystopian world and who are not; changing his perspective to lose trust in his wife Mildred, from previous quote, and finding safety with Faber, a retired professor he came by one day in a park. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author demonstrates the idea that when there is censorship in the world, ignorance will follow because when a subject is hidden from one anything they do regarding it is under the impression of their lack of knowledge surrounding the topic, this becomes more relevant when Ray Bradbury acknowledges the emotions of people who have read books and whom haven't and their general opinions of them.

Books are such a common part of the world today. They are read for leisure, for school work, for learning purposes, and so much more. That is why it is weird to imagine a world without them. However, that is what type of world exists in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this dystopian story, books are not allowed to be possessed or read, and if anyone possesses books, they have to be burned by firemen. The story follows a fireman named Guy Montag as he changes over time, going from loving his job burning books, to rebelling against the rules and wanting to read books. The novel ends in him escaping the city, where war breaks out, and joining a clan of men who are working to change the rules and eventually bring books back. Foreshadowing is used in Fahrenheit 451 to preview important events and build up suspense three major times: when Clarisse McClellan asks Montag if he is happy, when Montag stares at the ventilator grill in his house, and when the Mechanical Hound at the firehouse is hostile towards Montag.

Fahrenheit 451, a classic dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury, is set in a futuristic American society where books are not allowed to be read, let alone exist, for fear that the information they hold may cause people to think freely rather than mindlessly obey the government. Guy Montag, the novel’s protagonist, is a “fireman” whose job it is to burn all books and the houses that contain them. Like the other people in his town, Montag never questions his society. For this reason, he continues to blindly follow the rules set before him and live his bland life, each day returning to job where he unknowingly aids the government in controlling the information heard by citizens. However, after meeting Clarisse, a girl who actually thinks rather