Fahrenheit 451

Introduction

Fahrenheit 451 (published in Italy with the title the year of the Phoenix) is a novel of fiction written by Ray Bradbury. Born as an extension of the short story The Fireman, published in 1951 in the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction , and in Italy of Urania Magazine in two parts (Nos. 13 and 14, November and December 1953 ) under the title The year of the fire (Smolla, p. 895-912). The backdrop was a hypothetical future (after 1960 ) in which to read books is considered a crime, to counter which was set up a separate body of firefighters busy burning every type of volume . The title of the novel is by some referred to the temperature of self combustion of the paper (the one to which burns spontaneously according to imperial units), 451 degrees Fahrenheit precisely, which correspond to 232.78 ° C. It must however be said that in this allocation there is no trace in the text of the novel (451 is just the number on the helmet of a fireman Montag star) and that there is no single temperature of spontaneous combustion of paper (depending on the thickness of the card, for example. newsprint: 185 ° C, writing paper: 360 ° C) (Smolla, p. 895-912).

Discussion

Analysis

Montag is a fireman. In the society envisioned by the novel, of a dystopian, firefighters have a mission to burn books because, according to the government, read against being happy because full of trouble, to read, the men begin to differ when they should be equal, which is the government's objective, which ensures that citizens are happy so they do not question their actions and hold citizens in its work (Smolla, p. 895-912). At the beginning of the novel Montag country (USA) is on the brink of war. Montag meets a girl named Clarisse, who is designated as crazy for thinking. Clarisse that she and her family are branded as "antisocial" because asking questions, rather than their environment and meet the asking themselves. Is that young man who begins to generate doubt about whether Montag truly happy, well wake the curiosity about the books. The head of Montag, Beatty, says that books only serve to make people feel bad. It is a shrewd man who follows the ideal utopian of government, full of confidence in the system that governs the whole society (Smolla, p. 895-912).

Montag goes to a fire that had to burn a house of an elderly woman who had a library. Before pouring kerosene, Montag take a book and takes it hidden. The elderly not only refuses to leave home, but is she who sets her on fire with a match; because he thinks it is better to die with her books to live in ignorance. This impacts most Montag and makes you think about the ideals must be worth fighting for those people, which increases their curiosity (Bradbury, p. 1-179). Montag's wife, Mildred, has always been manipulated by the ideals that the government has brought in people, and ...