Fahrenheit 451 is a book with a timeless theme and should be looked at as a guide for the people in the future. It should be known that censorship is something that should not ever exist. People should always be allowed freedom of speech. That is one of our rights as human beings and it is protected by the first amendment of the Constitution and that was the essential point that Ray Bradbury was trying to convey in Fahrenheit 451. The symbolism throughout the book as well as the changes that Guy Montag and that fire went through, helped to present the themes of censorship and freedom during the novel. Ray Bradbury once said, “There is more than one way to burn a book, and the world is full of people running about with lit matches” (176). This sums up Bradbury’s entire view on censorship.

that revives Mildred, the roaring warplanes, and the Mechanical Hound. (Stanley 102)

There are many different symbols throughout the novel that can help the reader interpret Fahrenheit better. Perhaps the most obvious symbol in Fahrenheit is machinery and technology.

In the course of the book, Montag goes through what today might be called consciousness raising. He begins as a loyal fireman, burning what he is told to burn, progresses through a period of doubts and questioning, and ends up rebelling against the system and doing his part to keep man’s literary heritage alive. (Johnson 86)

should be dropped.” (Bradbury 175). In addition to that, Bradbury too realized that editors of a book for school readers crammed 400 stories by Twain, Irving, Poe,

The wall televisions are TV panels that take up the entire wall space in a room. People buy such huge panels because watching these larger-than-life screens takes the place of interacting with other people and living life. The people that appear on the screen are referred to as 'relatives' or the 'family' because they are the substitute for family for people in this society (Watt 197). Guy Montag is the main character in the book. At the beginning of the novel, when his wife Mildred tries to commit suicide by swallowing a whole bottle of pills, doctors come in with a stomach pumper and in minutes, she is recuperated. This shows the lack of loving life. The society does not care about individual lives at all. “When Montag finally makes his break from the technological future he is pursued by a ‘mechanical hound,’ a terrifying figure which combines the relentlessness of the bloodhound with the infallibility of technology” (Huntington 113). The firemen use the Mechanical Hound to kill people that get it their way. Because of all of the technological machinery of the future, the people do not have minds of their own. People of this futuristic town do not even think twice about killing someone. They think it is okay, and it is even the right thing to do.

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