Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal. A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. In his explication of the history of book burning, Beatty equates deep thought with sadness, which he rejects as categorically evil. The immediacy of pleasure in this bookless society eliminates thought and, with it, the ability to express sadness, which is why people like Mildred carry around vast amounts of suppressed pain.
According to Beatty, mass censorship began with various special-interest groups and minorities clamoring against material they considered offensive, as well as a shrinking attention span in the general populace. As a result, books and ideas were condensed further and further until they were little more than a series of sound bites; they were ultimately eliminated altogether in favor of other, more superficial, sensory-stimulating media.
Mass production called for uniformity and effectively eliminated the variance once found in books. Most people stopped reading books long before they were ever burned. His speech is filled with irony and sarcasm, and his description of reading strikes the reader as passionate and nostalgic. His championing of book burning, on the other hand, has a perfunctory, insincere tone. Superior minds are persecuted until they fall in line with everyone else.
People who are not born equal are made equal. Funerals are eliminated because they are a source of unhappiness, death is forgotten as soon as it occurs, and bodies are unceremoniously incinerated. In this society, books are as morbid as corpses, because they contain dead thoughts by dead authors.
This society idolizes fire, which represents the easy cleanliness of destruction. He prefers the life of instant pleasure. Montag returns home to find his wife and her friends watching the parlour wall screens. After trying to engage them in conversation, Montag begins reading from a book of poetry. Montag hides the poetry book and then goes to the firehouse with the Bible, handing it over to his boss, Captain Beatty, to cover for any previous suspicions.
The firehouse receives a call and Montag joins the crew as they race to the destination — his house. While doing this, Beatty finds the earpiece and Montag uses a flamethrower to burn Beatty to death.
There he meets a group of former intellectuals who escaped the authoritative society. They watch from a distance as nuclear bombs are dropped onto the city. When things settle, they begin walking towards the rubble, planning to help rebuild it and reintroduce books back into society. Books have been outlawed and his job is to burn them, along with the houses of those who resist. Over the course of the text, Montag undergoes significant character development. We are introduced to him as a loyal and unthinking member of the masses until regular meetings with his unusual new neighbour Clarisse cause him to question everything he knows to be true.
Throughout the text, she attempts to overdose with sleeping pills twice. Noted as being cold and distant, she is emotionally detached from Montag and everything around her. In the end, she betrays her husband by reporting his stolen books to authorities. Montag and Clarisse begin to meet regularly on his walk home from work and he quickly becomes intrigued by her. Her liberal ideas start to make him question his own life. Shortly after their first meeting, she disappears. It is later revealed that she was killed by a speeding car.
Faber is a former English professor who agrees to help Montag learn about books. Faber is scared of firemen and fears Montag is tricking him when the protagonist reaches out to the professor for assistance, but agrees to help after he realises Montag is genuine in his request.
The two communicate via a homemade earpiece. After helping Montag escape, Faber flees the city and heads to St Louis — making it out in time before the bombing. Captain Beatty is the captain of the firehouse where Montag works.
He is an older gentleman who remembers a time before books were banned and seems to know a lot about literature. Literary Term allusion anti-hero characterization diction dystopia iront metaphor science fiction simile symbol theme.
Cancel Culture and Censorship: In Fahrenheit , books are banned, and as a result, they are burned in addition to the homes containing books. While this may seem absurd, Beatty informs Montag that books became phased out over time as people stopped reading.
Fahrenheit highlights the danger and complexity in censorship. As a result of censorship, individuals like Mildred lack history, culture, and authentic perspective about the world. Truth and Happiness: Throughout the novel, characters such as Mildred distract themselves from engaging with their true emotions by indulging in excessive amounts of TV and overdosing on pills.
Bradbury highlights that the route to true happiness is only through engaging with the truth and difficult thoughts and experiences. Notes for Teachers. Lesson Map 1. Formulate and share unique arguments about censorship and cancel culture. Support arguments with strong and thorough textual evidence in a Summative Socratic Seminar.
Close Reading Macbeth — 5. Assessment: Free Response Fahrenheit Assessment: Socratic Seminar Fahrenheit Formulate and share unique arguments about Fahrenheit Support arguments with strong and thorough textual evidence in a summative Socratic Seminar.
Complete the performance task to show mastery of unit content and standards. Create a free account to access thousands of lesson plans. Join Now Already have an account? Sign In. Common Core Standards. Core Standards. Language Standards L. Reading Standards for Literature RL. Speaking and Listening Standards SL. Writing Standards W. Unit 1 Altruism and Interconnectedness in Short Texts. Unit 3 Feminism and Self-Respect in Sula.
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