Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

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Script Michael: We got the quote, “’Montag.’ Granger took Montag’s shoulder firmly. ‘Walk carefully. Guard your health. If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes’” (page 151). Kailen: I believe that this quote goes back to when Faber was describing to Montag about how books are people. Books are made of three things: quality information, leisure to digest it, and the freedom to act on what the reader learned. The book that Montag has to memorize is a mirror image of who he is inside since books are people and people are books. Michael: When Montag met Granger, Granger let Montag join the organization because he knew the kind of man Montag is. The organization is made up of thousands of people, who live a normal,

Fahrenheit 451 Beatty Quotes
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This quote occurs at the end of the chapter, the Sieve and the Sand, and Montag is talking to Beatty in the firehouse. Beatty tries to convince Montag that books are bad, and they are the cause to problems and conflicts. While Beatty is trying to persuade Montag, Faber is talking to Montag through the green bullet trying to convince Montag that Beatty is lying and sneaky. Beatty tells Montag this quote, which can be interpreted to mean that bad people can use words of truth to persuade people to follow them if the context of their statement is believable. When analyzing this interpretation, Beatty is basically implying that Montag in this case is the devil, and he is attempting to use good message such as the Scriptures to his advantage even
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Fahrenheit 451 Quotes
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This quote from George Orwell's novel 1984 ties heavily into the world and reactions of society created in the world of Fahrenheit 451. The most prevalent and literal link back to the quote is from part one of the novel, where Montag’s wife describes what has happened to Clarisse: "She's gone for good. I think she's dead. Run over by a car. Four days ago...
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Fahrenheit 451 Pride Quotes
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He brings this up to his wife Mildred days later, and she doesn’t seem to understand where he’s coming from. Montag then states, “You weren't there, you didn't see," he said. "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing” (Bradbury 54). This is when he begins to realize that there must be some sort of substance or value in books, but still doesn’t understand it completely
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Fahrenheit 451 Conformity Quotes
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Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 shares a lot of Bradbury's personal feelings, predictions, and criticisms of how society was changing during 1953. His feelings were influenced by Germany's book burnings and the Second Red Scare, which took place during the writing of the book and influenced the dystopian elements of the society in Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury argues that the rise of communism in the future could lead to a society that values conformity over individuality; this view can be seen today from the effects of political polarization and with the shifting parties in our democracy, as both republicans and democrats are traveling farther to the left and the right of the political spectrum. Communism is evident through Bradbury's dystopian
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Fahrenheit 451 Power Quotes
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Knowledge is Power: An Analysis on Clarisse’s Influence on Montag in Fahrenheit 451 Tom Clancey once said, “Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” When examining Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, this quote holds such significance. When Montag, a fireman who burns books, meets a girl, Clarisse, who adores learning, his outlook on his life completely shifts; she eventually inspires Montag to make a change. He bravely endangers himself for the possibility of deepening his knowledge.
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Fahrenheit 451 Ignorance Quotes
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Knowledge and Ignorance in Fahrenheit 451 Imagine a society where all books are banned from the public and if any are found they are burned into ashes. This is a reality in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which delves deep into problems a society becoming more and more dependant on technology may face. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury shows many problems which range from technology to violence, one important topic that is discussed is knowledge and the theme that a society cannot function without knowledge You can clearly see this idea starting to form within the first few pages of the novel, when the protagonist Guy Montag has an interaction with a girl named Clarisse. As they are talking Guy Montag says “You think too many things”(pg 9).
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Fahrenheit 451 Quotes Essay
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In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character, goes from loving his job to rethinking of his job. Montag came in mind that his job not only hurt him but also hurt society. He began to realize that he no longer enjoyed his job. Montag did not like the fact of knowing that his job was only hurting other people.
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Theme Of Conformity In Fahrenheit 451
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“A time to keep silent and a time to speak,” (158) is a quote from the book Fahrenheit 451. This novel is all about how people conform to a society that burns books. They do so because they make people “think” thoughts that the government doesn’t want them to. Though there are some who are not conformed and read books to enlighten themselves to the ways of the past, that changes the way they see the present. Mildred, Faber, and Clarisse are characters that represent different aspects of conformity or nonconformity in the Fahrenheit 451 society.
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Equivalent To Force Beatty Quotes
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“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force” (Samuel Johnson, Rasselas) This quote said by Dr. Samuel Johnson is included in this novel because it shows what Montag thinks about books. Some irony is involved because he is a firefighter, which means he burns books and houses with books in them. If this quote was not incuded, the readers would have a hard time understanding how Montag feels towards books. Beatty describes a dream he has with Montag where they yell quotes from famous authors back and forth to each other.
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Fahrenheit 451 Aphorism Quotes
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The story Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has many meaningful quotes and aphorisms. During the story a chacater says, "You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one." (Bradbury 58).
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Fahrenheit 451 Power Quotes
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Power can build up societies but also destroy them. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows the readers at the beginning of the book there is a powerful fireman that is a part of a strong society but by the end of the book the power that the fireman once had is gone. In his science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury communicates that when the government has too much control over society it can make people feel trapped and manipulated through the characterization of montag. Many times in this book Montag experiences different forms of power like having no power and having all the power.
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Fahrenheit 451 Campaign Quotes
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The government has no right to take aways peoples natural rights of life. They would go out of their way to wipe out anything that contains knowledge, but specifically it was books they wanted to keep away. They let a woman commit suicide as they were standing before her due to her unwillingness to give up her books, something she truly believes in. Clarisse McClellan was hit by a car because thats what was acceptable in their society and the government did nothing to stop them but there is no length they wouldn’t go to if it meant keeping books away. They also forced Montag to burn down his house because he had books stashed away and his own wife turned him in.
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Fahrenheit 451 Dialectical Journal
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The two of them decided to come up with a plan to show people that books are not worthless. c. Montag and Faber are living in a world where everyone believes that books have no value to them and should just be burned. However, these two characters think differently about them. Montag has been stealing books, and Faber has been teaching him about them. He learns that books reveal the bad parts of life, which is why many people hate them and decide not to read.
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Examples Of Tension In Fahrenheit 451
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Eating a meal with another individual has always shown a sense of communion between the people sharing the meal. Anyone can sense a relationship growing closer during this time, however, if the dinner turns out bad, it can create tension. Towards the conclusion of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, we read about how Montag is sitting around a fire and eating dinner with a bunch of people he just met. Although these men are technically strangers to Montag, he feels comfortable knowing these men share the same ideas as him about keeping the books alive and available to human kind.
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The Book Of Revelation Fahrenheit 451 Analysis
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Montag stole a book; the Book of Ecclesiastes. He explains this to Faber because he wants Faber to understand how passionate he has become for wanting to learn and use books. Montag’s love for reading gradually grows more and more because he is beginning to actually read them. That is another reason why the book of Ecclesiastes is so important because it is the first one he actually begins to read. Montag feels a power source from the books he is reading that energizes his feeling of gaining more knowledge from them.
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