Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is futuristic novel posing the answer to the question of “what will the future bring if we follow the current path?” Bradbury observed the trends of censorship in the book burnings in Germany and paranoid McCarthyism in the United States and used symbolism and exaggerated metaphor to convey the destructive and degenerative direction of censorship throughout the world.
The most obvious symbol is that of fire. The first part of the book is titled the Hearth and the Salamander. The salamander is a small amphibian that was believed to be a creature that endured fire without being harmed. The
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