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Fahrenheit 451: Society's Critical Reflection Through Satire

"Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, a 1953 American satire set in the 24th century, critiques anti-intellectualism and materialism. The novel explores a world where the American dream has become a nightmare due to superficial understanding. Through irony and sarcasm, Bradbury highlights the dangers of censorship and the power of ideas in filling the void of emptiness in protagonist Montag's life."

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Fahrenheit 451: Society's Critical Reflection Through Satire

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  1. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury The temperature at which paper burns

  2. Fahrenheit 451was written in 1953 as an American satire set in the 24th century. • Satire is the literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, indignation, or scorn. • Satire depends on its audience understanding irony or the difference between what is shown and what actually is.

  3. Fahrenheit 451… Directs its sarcasm not at specific institutions but at anti-intellectualism Directs its sarcasm at materialism. Depicts a world in which the American dream has turned into a nightmare because it has been superficially understood.

  4. The novel is an argument against censorship.

  5. At the center of the novel is Montag’s slowly rising consciousness of the emptiness of his life and the lure of ideas to fill that emptiness. http://raybradbury.com/images/video/wilshire_blvd.html

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