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| "The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy" |
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| "The absolute value of books is seporate from their personal value that has lifted the souls and opened the minds t countless individuals. . . everyone in Bradbury's world, including the exiled book readers themselves, have lost that personal love for the fel of text on paper and the smell of vellum as it ages yellow." (paragraph 8) |
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| "The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy" |
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| "To see books as the saviors f humanity is not naive; it is dangerous. Rely on your survival manual in the middle of the desert and you will probably die of thirst." |
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| "The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy" |
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"Most people in this World demand live inside intertainment, ignoring those inner voices tat ask, 'Is this it?'"
(paragraph 4) |
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| "The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy" |
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"The book burning is not a government mandated censorship . . . Insead it is a society-built degeneration of the written word. Society has rejected the black and white messages bound in leather and paper."
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| "The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy" |
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"His job is to set fire to boks so that no on will read and cosequently understand he hopelessness of reality."
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| "The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy" |
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"The only fellow with depth and dynamics is Guy Montag, and that is because he is the only huma struggling for some truth."
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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". . . Fahrenheit 451 is achieved at the cost of the self-destruction of the rest of society, which is scant hope for those individuals who are currently in the grip of a repressive system."
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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| "His collection of strange speculations somehow works, probably because he is working so effectively on our fears: crazy teenagers, out to drive over helpless pedestrians; a war that no one cares about, but eventually ends our civilization; relationships completely empty emotion and the symetic stifling of the mind." |
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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talking about Clarisse: "Its a shock, but she is also blanced thematically and structurally by the introduction of an older male character, a former professor named Faber. The young girl and the old man serve as guides for Montag on his journey of self-awareness."
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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| "Montag also becomes disillusioned while at work. For one thing, the Mechanical Hound, a strange and terrible robotic beast that is kept in a kennel at the fire house, doesn't seem too sure of (Montag's) scent anymore, and the Hound always gets it's prey." |
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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"Mildred participates enthusiastically in all of the distractions the society has ordained for her: driving too fast in her car, listening to her Seashell al night, and most of all paying attention to the 'family' in her living room, three walls of which have been converted to giant televisions."
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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"After an unsettling conversation, Clarisse (McClellan) asks him if he is happy, ad his ready answer is belied by his sudden realization that not everything is alright."
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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"The story centers on a man named Guy Montag who is a fireman, but in his future, the houses are all fireproof and the main job of the firemen is to find books and burn them. By the third page of the story, though, we have already learned of Montag's unease with the repressive social order that his preofession help prop up."
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| "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451" |
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"The book is a cautionary tale about what happens when books are forgotten or actively suppressed, and it forms one of its own best arguments in favour of the bok as a keystone to intellectual freedom."
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| "Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily" |
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"The firemen arrive on a truck, dressed in fire-resisant clothing and carrying hoses. But their hoses pupm, not water, but kerosene, which they use to drench the illegal collection of books they've been called to take care of, along with therest of the house in which they're stored. Then they set the whole sodden mess afire and watch it burn to the ground."
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| "Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily" |
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| "For when Guy Montag, the young fireman who is the main character of Fahrenheit 451, poses a question to his colleagues at the local firehouse-- 'In the old days, before homes were fire proofed,' he asks them, 'didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?'-- they answer him by consulting 'their rule books, which also contain breif histories of the Firemen of America.'" |
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| "Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily" |
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| "A typical middle class home in the world of Fahrenheit 451 has an entire room devoted to TV, with the images being received on huge screens that cover three or four of the walls in that room. In some programs, the viewer is given a small part, addressed by name by the other characters, and assigned a few lines to speak. But never is any actual information of any lasting importance conveyed to the viewer." |
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| "Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily" |
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| "And why did the public itself stop reading of its own accord? Because so many of the individuals who made up that public wanted to avoid ever being offended by reading anything they didn't already believe. And most of the rest wanted to avoid having to think at all-- they wanted to avoid difficult decisions, the strain of trying to focus ther minds on ideas that could plausibly be looked at and understod in more than one way." |
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| "Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily" |
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| "According to Beatty, one part of what has to be done to make people happy is to make them fel equal to everone else." |
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| "Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily" |
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| "It turns out she's his next-door neighbor, a girl who likes taking walks in the evening, a girl who, perhaps unwittingly, encourages Montag's growing determination to rebe, if only in a small way, against the system that, at least through his employment, sustains him." |
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"Revisit Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily"
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| "Within a week of meeting 16-year-old Clarisse, Montag has murdered his fire chief and destroyed his station's expensive, high tech Mechanical Houn. He has left his wife, gone on the lam, and joined an underground organization of men and women, eacch of whom has committed one ore more books to memory, awaiting the day when it will once again be legal to print, sell, and reas such things." |
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| "Dystopias are usually caricatures of the writer's own society, set in a near future in which te negative qualities the writer perceives in the present are permitted to run amok, so that the representation he creates exemplefies the consequences of a current set of circumstances run out to their logical conclusion." |
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| "The programming is simplistic and subject to extremely rapid alterations, designed to keep citizens entertained, content, tractable, distacted and divided. . . Possession of any written matter is a feony punishable by death. " |
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| "Bradbury will invoke fire in many forms, time and again, because it has a double nature. In the first case, fire is one of the principle tool of human civilization, by means of which human beings were first able to function at night or in places inaccessible to sunlight, or in cold climates; fire is essential t the hygienic preparation of food, a deterrent to the approach of predators, and can be employed to send simple signals over long distances. . . While fire is useful, it is also dangerous, and can, if not carefully controlled, become a destroyer. Especially important is the power fire possesses to grow without limitation." |
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| "She is almost always physically and mentaly connected to some form of machinery that seems to be sucking the life out of her and replacing it with a worthless substitute." |
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| "Unable to admit even to herself that she is deeply unhapy, Mildred plunges into the sprawling, brightly-colored beguiling but finally empty fantasies of a monolithic electronic media operated by the state." |
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| "When confronted with the prospect of her death, he is shocked to discover he doesn;t really know Mildred; nearly losing her causes him to confront the fact that he can't say, clearly or vaguely, just whom it was and he might have lost. He does not have her to lose. Arguably worse, from Montag's point of view, is Mildred's basic indifference to him. His identity, his individuality, means nothing to her; he is imply her husband. . . Her near-suicide attempt has the effect of compelling Montag to realize that his marriage is a sham." |
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| "Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition." |
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| "One of a number of dystopic novels published after World War II, the work portrays humans as having lost touch with the natural world, with the world of the intellect, and with each other." |
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| "Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition." |
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| "People hurry from their homes to their workplaces and back, never speaking of what they feel or think but only spouting meaningless facts and figures." |
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| "Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition." |
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| "The streets have become dangerous as minimum speed limits 55 miles per hour must be maintained, and high speeds well over 100 miles per hour are more common. Teenagers and daring adults race teir cars through the streets without concern for human life. War with an unnamed enem is imminent." |
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| "Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition." |
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| ". . . the realization that there is a better life comes in the form of a 17-year-old girl named Clarisse, whose appreciation of nature, desire to talk about feelings and thoughts, and appreciation for simply being alive mark her as an 'odd duck'" |
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| "Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition." |
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| "Montag learns that the major reason for the abolition of books was to keep everyone happy. His fire captain explains that without books there is no conflicting theory or thought, and no one learns anything more than anyone else." |
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| "Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition." |
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| " . . . Following Faber's directions, Montag goes to the railroad yards, where he meets a group of old men all former university professors who have each memorized specific literary works. They claim to be a part of a network of thousands of individuals who will keep literature alive in their heads until the time comes when the oppression ceases and they can set the literature in type once more. Montag, who has memorized several books of the Old Testament, joins them" |
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