Possessing and perusing unauthorized material is considered felonious. If discovered, then identified personages are penalized. Their novels are eradicated by flames and their belongings are obliterated. The government is portrayed as an oppressive and authoritative regime that discourage pursuing and preserving knowledge of any distinction. Any enlightened individual who inquires or expresses themselves is viewed as an unlawful tyrant by the civilians. Thus, the appeal of censorship transforms itself into a visible theme in the story.
Bradbury explains in depth that several factors contributed to this evelation. As personages became more consumed by the bustle and swiftness of their daily schedules, novels became condensed to spare the time necessary for comprehension and digestion. Eventually, they became such an insignificant aspect of life that they were forgotten by the masses completely. Alongside these integral components, the expansion and improvement of technology made it unnecessary to educate personages, as such sufficiency and advancements no longer deemed it a requirement.
Not only is that, but because compositions provided material that could easily offend or nstigate dispute among opinionated individuals and minorities, they were unfortunately considered an obsolete evil by society. The novel explores the battle between a personage that seeks knowledge as a means of altering this dystopian society for the better and the masses who have, for so long, been debased into perceiving otherwise. Beatty’s conviction is that personages are not initially produced equal. Instead, they must assume egalitarianism by way of their actions and surroundings.
To guarantee that discrete personages are neither disincentive nor malcontent ith either their residency or themselves, the superiors of the totalitarian regime blatantly urges their supportive civilians to obliterate any perceivable configuration of intellect. Because of this ignorance that is distinguished as a necessity for the maintenance of equality in humanitarian existence and consciousness, the masses are submissive to leading dull lives that are often filled with rash decisions. Because consistency and conformity are apparent attributes in every aspect of their established society, many personages are subconsciously displeased.
They lack the proper judgement in formulating sagacious decisions or satisfying the proliferating void with the happiness found solely in the confines of enlightenment and pursuit of knowledge. In the haste of maintaining this ignorance, the society is blinded. Personages cannot outwardly express themselves or acknowledge their emotions, so they take it upon themselves to terminate their existence for reasons that they themselves are unaware of. The government and discrete intellectual superiors abuse their powers and rights as well.
This novel explores what effects both ignorance and the aintenance of preserving a blind eye to societal issues can ultimately result in. Possessing luminescent cerulean eyes and feathers arranged in a hue of vibrant shades, myths illustrate the phoenix as a sumptuous and formidable creature. Every century, the phoenix perishes in a massive explosion of its individually generated flames and out of the remaining ashes, the existence of this creature is recycled once again before it takes flight and resettles to repeat the same process.
The tale of the phoenix is similar to that of the civilization that is present in Bradbury’s book. Because the personages fail to preserve the countless morals and recollections that are confined in the pages of these banned novels, they continuously repeat the same mistakes and fall into the same tragedies of their former ancestors. As a result of their omnipresent ignorance and failure to educate themselves, several civilizations are established and annihilated before they are made once again by the survivors.
Like the symbol of the phoenix represents, they are their own destruction as they are their own source of resurrection. The story repeats countless of times and as a conclusion, several of he rebellious characters aspire that it’ll something which will terminate in its entirety once humanity begins perusing novels and recollecting their civilization’s past once again. By utilizing the neighboring river where he eludes detection, Montag has triumphed in absconding the Mechanical Hound that authorities have programmed to pursue and terminate his existence.
As he’s transported downstream, he’s swept ashore into the vicinity of an expansive forest where he acquaints intellectual personages unlike the societal conformists that he’s managed to elude. Presided over peacefully by a distinguishable igure named Granger, these enlightened individuals have dedicated their entire existence to preserving the knowledge of their ancestors and recalling the content of annihilated publications.
As the city where Montag had once submissively occupied undergoes obliteration by way of massive bombs, the surviving aggregate of intellects recount their purpose in life and persist onward. In the silence of the subsiding moments proceeding these attacks, Granger pronounces the forgotten legend of the Phoenix who had experienced a complete resurrection upon his disintegrating ashes with the utmost care nd compares it to their society that had once ceased to exist. As long as they persist in their travels and acquaint passionate personages similar to themselves, there is luminescence where obsidian thrives.
So long as they take the initiative to incorporate and preserve the humanitarian ideologies of their former kin, their newly formed society can be established in such a way that it shall prosper with the acceptance of expressionism and thriving individualism. This is a pivotal moment in Montag’s life because this conclusion commenced the beginning of something better. His life isn’t perfect, but he as found himself a solitary refuge in the knowledge that he had once been forbidden to pursue or acquire.
This ending is symbolizing a rekindling hope for humanity- a hope that with the end of their journey, what they’ve worked for will come true. Knowledge will be their harbinger and one day, the Phoenix will sustain its entirety and thrive in its immortality rather than collapse upon itself once again. History will not be repeated. Instead, it will be preserved and recollected as the ending of this novel insinuates. In myths, the salamander is portrayed as a creature that can ithstand the intensity of flames and repel any harmful substances that are inflicted upon its path.
In fact, salamanders are even thought to reside unharmed inside of the expanding flames that enclose them. In Fahrenheit 451, the firemen create flames that obliterate any remnants of intellect as a way of preserving the equality that the government instills in their society. The firemen reside within these flames and without a second notion, they burn. However, they do not perish. Instead, they continuously persist and eradicate whatever impediments or forbidden items linger on their path. Guy Montag is a alamander of his own, which is a transparent symbol in the story. He resides in the flames of propaganda.
He resides in a burning shelter that has always been his home since the beginning. He remains unaffected because all he knows is to maintain the censorship evident in that particular region. However, he cannot perish and so, resistant to these flames, he scatters away. Legend nor reality may break the salamander’s indestructible resistance, as Montag’s cannot be annihilated nor consumed by the flames of ignorance and propaganda. He survives and thrives. He maintains and eventually, he begins to reate a new life somewhere else. Fire is a prominent symbol in the composition.
This element is utilized in several ways to describe some of the more prominent themes in the novel. At the beginning of the story, this element is portrayed as a destructive and chaotic force. The raging fires that Montag and the firemen ultimately create amongst themselves both consume and discard the novels and belongings of those who are discovered by the civilization’s authorities for transgress the mandated law However, as the story progresses, Guy Montag learns that fire does not always ave to assume a beastly form, but that it can also represent warmth and the flickering luminescence of insight and knowledge.
When he acquaints Granger and the rest of the individuals who are secretly traveling with entire publications stowed away in their minds, he learns of this fire unlike the flames of his society. He learns that fire isn’t always bad, that fire can be a stimulating force of good nature. This symbol solidifies the growth and development of Montag’s character from the beginning to the end and epitomizes the struggle in escaping ignorant ideologies to acquire an existential luminescence.