Next time your teacher asks you for Fahrenheit 451 analysis, use one of these Fahrenheit 451 quotes instead of looking stupid.
Quote: White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days (9).
Analysis: Clarisse tells Montag about her "strange" family, the one that actually converses with each other and enjoys nature. This shows just how shallow Montag's society has become. Nobody thinks, one of many Bradbury predictions that have come true. For example, instead of taking the time to actually read this novel, you hopped online looking for some fancy Fahrenheit 451 quotes without taking the time for your own Fahrenheit 451 analysis (Disregard that last part if, in fact, you read the novel and are just looking for a greater understanding of it (If you are looking for a greater understanding of it, we'll be over later to burn your copy of the book)).
Quote: They had this machine. They had two machines really. One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there (14).
Analysis: Bradbury uses figurative language several times in the novel to give machines animal-like qualities. Here we have a simile, a stomach pump being compared to a snake. The snakes are here to revive Montag's wife who has attempted suicide again. Suicides are popular in Montag's society.
Quote: It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a wall-TV put in. It's only two thousand dollars (20).
Analysis: I tried to help a friend put together a budget. He had massive credit card debt and no savings. I encouraged him to begin paying down his debt and create a savings program. He insisted it was impossible. We went over his expenses. He owned two giant TVs and paid nearly $150 dollars a month on cable. I suggested he cut his cable bill by $50 and start paying off one of his credit cards. He refused. He bought another TV for his bedroom. His wife lost her job and their home went into foreclosure. Now he has his three TVs in a one bedroom apartment. Bradbury was prophetic.
Next time your teacher asks you for Fahrenheit 451 analysis, use one of these Fahrenheit 451 quotes instead of looking stupid.
Quote: The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse (24).
Quote: It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think (27).
Analysis: Another animal-like machine--the mechanical hound is a metaphor for Montag and other members of his society who live, yet do not live and who think only what the TV tells them to think. Some claim this is another Bradbury prediction come true. I'm not sure. I have to check what Oprah says about it.
Quote: Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchant, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy (57).
Analysis: Beatty explains the origins of banned books. This, however, is more of an authorial intrusion. I would say Bradbury's prediction has come true in the form of political correctness and the influence of special interest groups in Congress, but I don't want to offend anybody. In fact, I'll choose to be offended since I qualify for three of the above groups.
Quote: Montag: I've got an awful feeling I want to smash things and kill things.
Mildred: Go take the beetle (64).
Analysis: It's common to smash things in this society.
Quote: The train radio vomited upon Montag (79).
Analysis: Great personification. If you don't think this prediction has come true, turn on your car radio on your way to school or work and count how many morning DJs tell fart jokes.