Fahrenheit 451 Critical Lens

As Confucius once said, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” That quote ties beautifully into one of the main themes of the book “Fahrenheit 451”, which will be explained later on in-depth. A student conducting a text analysis and review of “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury will expound on the story’s strengths, weaknesses, major plot points and personal opinions. The books is about a future dystopian society that favors the burning of books by firemen and jailing the people in possession of them. The protagonist is a fireman named Guy Montag. After coming into contact with Clarisse McClellan he begins to think for himself and out side of himself for the first time in many long years. Montag latter comes to the realization

In the novel their are warnings lanced up with the plot. For instance Prophesier Faber said, “Those who don't build must burn, (Bradbury 87).” Their are also small predictions of things come to pass already, which is increasingly alarming when placed next to the warnings we get. A prediction would be wireless bluetooth earbuds. They called them ear thimbles, but the concept was the same none the less. All that you read in the book makes you think. It makes you wonder if the ultimate ending of the book is the same one that is to come to pass, whether or not it is 100% the same. In addition to the story’s strength the book had a couples weaknesses as well. Weaknesses of the text “Fahrenheit 451” are sparse and few throughout, though. One I did notice was the actual format Bradbury wrote in from time to time. He wrote sentences that are hard to read for their jumbled and chaotic nature. For instance Bradbury described the instance Montag found his wife comatose, “The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him, (Bradbury 11).” The sentence is not necessarily a bad one, but it’s chaotic and it’s hard to really understand the purpose of