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INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL

INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a type of DYSTOPIC novel. That means it is about a future that is bleak, dark and dreary. The novel focuses on two central themes: CENSORSHIP IGNORANCE OF KNOWLEDGE. Read on to discover what Fahrenheit 451 is all about….

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INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL

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  1. INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL

  2. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a type of DYSTOPIC novel. That means it is about a future that is bleak, dark and dreary. • The novel focuses on two central themes: • CENSORSHIP • IGNORANCE OF KNOWLEDGE Read on to discover what Fahrenheit 451 is all about…

  3. IGNORANCE OF KNOWLEDGE: Bradbury focuses on the importance of learning and how it impacts our ability to make decisions. He believes that without the ability to think about what we’re doing, we’ll be led to do wrong.

  4. The novel was written by Ray Bradbury, a celebrated science fiction writer. It began as a short story in 1951 and evolved into a novel by 1953. The novel was written a time when the world was threatened by nuclear war, new technologies were emerging and the world was getting smaller. Read on to discover what Fahrenheit 451 is all about…

  5. It is the 24th century. Books are considered dangerous and illegal. Nobody is allowed to own them. Most people are happy being plugged into their technology, where they do not have to think too hard. All books that are found are burned.

  6. Why are books so dangerous?

  7. Guy Montag is a fireman. It is not his job to put out fires. It is his job to start them.

  8. If a house is suspected to have books in it, Guy and the other firemen properly dispose of them.

  9. Most often, the whole house must be destroyed. Sometimes the people in the house choose to die with their books.

  10. The problem is, Guy is not so comfortable with the whole burning books thing.

  11. Unfortunately for Guy, he live in a society where censorship is king; a society where you don’t know if you can trust your friends, or even your wife; a society in which criminals are tracked by relentless mechanical hounds that never fail to bring down their victims….

  12. The novel was inspired by real life events that impacted the author’s life: ”McCarthyism” – Fear of Communism 1950s lifestyle Cold War http://www.slideshare.net/mrskedu/intro-powerpoint-bradbury

  13. 1950 President Harry Truman approves production of the hydrogen bomb. 1951 Television first broadcast across the country. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for passing information on atomic weapons to the USSR. TIMELINE OF THE 1950s

  14. 1952 Fashion, people and society is very conservative. People are generally respectful of each other, the government, religion and life. TIMELINE OF THE 1950s 1954 The U.S. Supreme Court wrote in “Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas” that racial segregation in schools was illegal.

  15. TIMELINE OF THE 1950s 1954 U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins a televised anti-communist witch-hunt. This became known as “McCarthyism”. Basically, the Cold War revolved around the fact that: The USA was a Democratic country where people could do what they want, become rich and have freedoms. The Soviet Republic (USSR) was Communist, which meant people listened to the government, lived equally and shared resources. The United States declared Communism countries to be enemies. The US government wanted everyone to think Communists were evil so they spread around hate propaganda. McCarthy accused random people he didn’t like of being Communists, which basically ruined their lives.

  16. TIMELINE OF THE 1950s 1956 Elvis Presley took the music world by storm with five #1 songs on the Billboard Music Chart. 1957 First British H-bomb exploded at Christmas Island. First underground nuclear test “Rainier” occurred at the Nevada Test Site. Britain’s first truly successful thermonuclear bomb test. The Soviet Union Launches the Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby invent the microchip. The first enclosed mall called Southdale opened in Edina, Minnesota

  17. THE WORLD WAS GOING CRAZY…. As the 1950s and the Cold War progressed Ray Bradbury saw the government taking a great deal of power over the people and this worried him. How could a government with too much power be dangerous? Ray Bradbury saw the world changing quickly and dangerously so this is why he wrote Fahrenheit 451 – to warn people of what would happen if society continued down what he believed was a dangerous path….

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