Fahrenheit 451 Review ofFahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradburyby
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...premise of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. In a world that has gone mad, it centres on the war between censorship and freedom of thought. The protagonist, Guy Montag is the local firefighter, and he lives in an isolated society, where the totalitarian Government have tried to control independent thinking, by banning books.
The Government believe that people should be happy and carefree, and that books have a bad effect on them, by giving them ideas. ...
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Advantages: Please read the op Disadvantages: Really, read the op, but there isn't any disadvantage
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WHAT IS FAHRENHEIT 451 ?
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Before talking about the book, I will just explain the title. Actually 451°F is the temperature when paper begins to burn. Why the title ? Read my little summary.
In an unfortunately too-near future (no date is given by Bradbury, that avoids the problems of Orwell's "1984" for example), a fireman named Guy Montag is happy to do his job. The only hitch is that Bradbury's firemen ...
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12.09.2001
Fire Starter Review ofFahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradburyby
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Advantages: Good plot with interesting ideas behind it Disadvantages: The story has a sad, hopeless feel to it.
Fahrenheit 451 is a look into a future where books are condemned as dangerous and are therefore burnt. Montag is the central character in the book and is a fireman, but not in the sense we understand. Montag is paid to burn books not to stop fires, there is no need to stop house fires now anyway as all houses are fireproof.
Even after you have finished reading the book, Bradbury's horrifying version of the future hovers in the mind, to be contemplated ...
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Farenheit 451 is one of the seminal books on state censorship and the creation of an artificial utopia. It ranks alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World.
Farenheit 451 is about Guy Montag, a fireman - but not in any conventional sense of the word. In this bleak future, firemen are employed not to put out fires (all the houses are now fire-proof), but instead to start fires... to burn books.
Books are evil. They spread malcontentment. ...
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Advantages: An absolute classic and comment on the world today. Disadvantages: None
...and in particular that book. Fahrenheit 451, is a book about books, a book about the burning of books. But behind it there is much more than that, as I saw in the book when I re-read it as an adult, and was even more blown away by it than when I first read it as a child. A story full of social commentary about modern society, a prediction of a future in which we now live. Up there with 1984 and Brave New World this is a book that predicted our world ...
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26.10.2004
Quick review of Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Review ofFahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradburyby
pisceanamol
The book covers a very burning topic of debate that too in a lucid and compose manner. A guy who likes to burn the books.
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20.03.2008
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put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place wher...
put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place wher...
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