Throughout his novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury clearly elucidates his strong belief that technological advances have adverse effects on society as a whole. He expounds his opinion through a description of a school in the quote, "An hour of TV class four more hours of film-teacher" (29). ... The repetition of the word "hour" is significant in conveying Bradbury's attitude because it shows how the students are subjected to long periods of monotonous activity which resulted in a narrow minded, unthinking society. Another way Bradbury expresses his opinion that technological advances unfav...

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In the book Fahrenheit 451, Beatty (a fireman that works with Montag) is a very logical person. ... In the book, he gives a description of his environment, the government, and the society in that time. The odd part of his description is that it is strikingly familiar to that of today. ... All of his descriptions are from his point of view. ... All that I have said so far shows that our society is similar to the one in Fahrenheit 451, we are somewhat headed in the direction their society, and I don't believe that we will get as bad as their society has gotten. ...

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" Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a well-known science fiction novel that successfully influences readers; make us to rethink about the importance of books and how grateful we have the freedom to read nowadays. The book includes lots of details and description about the story; Francois Truffaut's film in 1966 is a more visual way to look at this story. The film expresses the themes well, shows the ideas of negative dystopian society and censorship. ... Although the book and the movie are quite different versions expressing the story, they both face up the issue of governm...

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Two works of literature that support this idea are Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and "Harrison Bergeron," by Kurt Vonnegut. ... The plot of Fahrenheit 451 deals with a dystopia in which censorship is a prominent theme. ... These contrasting descriptions prove how deep into the future of American society Mildred is pulled. ... Additionally, this society also forced the beautiful to wear a mask. ... In Both Fahrenheit 451 and "Harrison Bergeron" the authors extrapolated the dumbing-down of a society reaching an end very similar to the horrific conditions that existed under the Taliban....

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Title of work: Fahrenheit 451 2. ... Montag meets an, according to society, odd girl named Clarisse McClellan. 2. ... He relates to the sight senses with his physical description of characters. ... Significance of title: The title of the book, Fahrenheit 451, is significant because that is the exact temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns. ... Also, "451" is the only number actually written out in numerics. ...

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The idealized description of Sparta in Plutarchs life of Lycurgus belongs to the same class of literary Utopias, though it professes to be historical. ... A good example of this is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Flamingo, 1993). ... McCarthy had bullied the Army into removing some "tainted" books from the overseas libraries Meanwhile our search for a magazine publisher to print portions of Fahrenheit 451 came to a dead end. ... Fahrenheit 451 is a clear reaction to the McCarthy era in which it was written; the near future book burning society is a logical projection of the world of 1950'...

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