F451 Presentation

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and in the 21st century, two strong societies, with greatly divergent rules and laws represent the ideal image of equality on different levels which finally came to a clash.

F451 Propagnda

• Parlor Walls
• Seashell Radio
• TV shows, endless routine

“They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and gray-looking without it’s wall lit with orange and yellow confetti and skyrockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats. The parlor was dead….” (Bradbury, 67).

Modern Propaganda

• Famous stars indorse
• People buy products
• People feel self-concious

F451 Figurehead Worship

• Books burned
• No Ideals or goals in life, like having kids, independence etc..
• If books are burned, problems go away

“Do you ever read the books you burn?” Montag laughed. “That’s against the law!” (Bradbury, 5)

Modern Dictators

• Kim Jung-un
• Ideals and laws forced upon people
• Subjects are OK with the situation

The fire may symbolize to some F451 characters that the problems may go away if they just burn them. Books father ideas, ideas cause actions, actions father ideals, ideals cause ignorance, ignorance forms conflict, conflict equals death.

F451 State of mind

• Robotic
• Meaningless life
• Blindly without purpose
• No conflict of the mind or activity

Mildred kicked at a book.
"Books aren't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!" (Bradbury, 69)

She says books aren’t real, so what does she consider real? Her parlor family isn’t real yet she thinks of them as her ‘family’? Books can be visualized in your mind but parlor families are on TV and programmed to tell you they love you.

COuch Potatoes

• No REAL connection to the family or friends (but has Netflix)
• Hogged up with TV and electronics
• Has no life and don't question most things in life

All his life Montag has known only destruction, only one half of the cycle. Destruction has no meaning for him until he begins to recognize the work he is undoing, the construction half of the cosmic routine.