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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2453 words (9.81 pages) in the essay titled Fahrenheit 4512 “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed,” begins Fahrenheit 451 (1). This opening of Bradbury’s novel immediately evokes the consequences of the careless use of new technology and modern-man’s refusal to recognize these consequences (de Koster 44). The book Fahrenheit 451 is one of only two novels that Ray Bradbury has written, the other being Something Wicked This Way Comes. (Many believe that Dandelion Wine and The Martian Chronicles are novels when in fact they are just collections of different stories put together by connected themes.) The idea for the story comes from a story called the “The Fireman” published in Galaxy. The premise for the book is rather farfetched-that firemen in some future state no longer fight fires but set them, having become extensions of a political program aimed at stamping out all literature (Johnson 85). It was written when Senator Joseph McCarthy was trying to destroy the rebellious elements in the U.S. “Using broad attacks, innuendo, and guilt by association, they had made Hollywood one of their major targets, convinced it was a hotbed of communists sympathizers and saboteurs”(de Koster 26). This was known as the McCarthy era. Bradbury admits that the book Fahrenheit 451 was an attack on McCarthyism (personal attacks on individuals on a wide scale, usually based on false accusations) even though this wasn’t very clear. “In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury mourns no... |
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