FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury. Literature & Language Research Paper

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* Introduction- Introduces Fahrenheit 451 and highlights the issues addressed in the book.
Thesis: Fahrenheit 451 highlights issues such as technology, science development, violent and religion.
* Technology
* Bradbury predicted advancement of technology.
* The author stipulated that the future would be dominated by technology e.g. flat TV screens.
* Mildred is dependent on the media as the source of information.
* Social media platforms such as Facebook have become the primary source of information among many people in American society.
* Science development
* The high speed and self-thinking cars, Mildred explain about the Phoenix car driven by a man in a black shirt.
* Science and technology in contemporary society have led to the development of high-speed vehicles use for emergencies.
* Violence
* Montag’s society has recorded high cases of violence and has resulted in the formation of self-defense organizations.
* Conflicts are common in different regions across the world, such as the Middle East.
* Religion
* Montag is seen holding a bible on his hand; he is surprised with what he did by burning the books and continues tearing books.
* In modern society, people have used religion for their own personal gains by enriching themselves.
* Conclusion
Realism Reflection in Fahrenheit 451
Abstract
Fahrenheit 451, narrates a story of a fireman who ironically starts setting a fire instead of assisting people to put out the fire. The book depicts some of the serious issues of the control of the masses by the media, suppression of the kind and banning of books. For example, in part one of this book, the chapter indicates the degenerated future in which books and sovereign thinking are prohibited. The Implicit hope and faith of Bradbury is a representation of a working-class fireman. Realism is a writing device that tries to link the fiction being written to real-world events. Most of the writers will try to predict the future society so as their work can live for long over generations. Bradbury was a professional scientist and a writer to produce one of the greatest works to have been proved by modern society. When he wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451 in the early 50s, he did this basically to rebuke a lousy culture that was developing in the society; burning books. The American society at this era had developed a bad trait of burning books, newspapers and school papers at any time anywhere. This became a concern to professionals such as Bradbury who considered it as burning knowledge instead of conserving it. He decided to condemn it in a different polite way; by enlightening those that were actively burning and to the future by also retargeting future prospects. In the book, he depicts how society had become ignorant by burning books. The trend had gone to the extent of government assigning duties to the fire department for collecting old libraries from people and burning them. Writing is a way of preserving knowledge for future reference, but the society was not aware of this. Instead, it went to the extent burning religious books such as the Bible. This was the main theme for writing the book; to stop realistic s...