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Ray BradburyFULL TITLE · Fahrenheit 451 TYPE OF WORK · Novel
GENRE · Science fiction LANGUAGE · English TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1950–1953, Los Angeles, California DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · 1953 (a shorter version entitled “The Fireman” was published in 1951 in Galaxy Science Fiction) PUBLISHER · Ballantine Books NARRATOR · Third-person, limited omniscient; follows Montag’s point of view, often articulating his interior monologues CLIMAX · Montag’s murder of Beatty PROTAGONIST · Montag ANTAGONIST · Beatty, but also society in general SETTING (TIME) · Sometime in the twenty-fourth century; there have been two atomic wars since 1990 SETTING (PLACE) · In and around an unspecified city POINT OF VIEW · Montag’s FALLING ACTION · Montag’s trip out of the city into the country TENSE · Past, with occasional transitions into present tense during Montag’s interior monologues and stream-of-consciousness passages FORESHADOWING · Montag’s uncanny feelings of prescience; early descriptions of the Mechanical Hound; Montag’s nervous glances toward the ventilator shaft where he has hidden his books; discussion of the qualities of fire TONE · Foreboding and menacing, disoriented, poetic, bitterly satirical THEMES · Censorship, knowledge versus ignorance MOTIFS · Paradoxes, animals and nature, religion, television and radio SYMBOLS · Fire, blood, the Electric-Eyed Snake, the hearth, the salamander, the phoenix, the sieve and the sand, Denham’s Dentifrice, the dandelion, mirrors Archives |
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