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Fahrenheit 451 Literary Tools
Motifs
A motif is something that is repeated many times throughout a story. It is used to show importance to an object. It can help provide a theme, and it can influence the mood.
Motif
Nature Motif
- Clarisse teaches Montag nature
- Trees, leaves, nuts
- Montag starts transforming
- Nature reflects Montag's feelings of home
Nature
Seashell Motif
- Seashells= Isolation
- Mildred is far from Montag
- Family dinner with earbuds? Never.
- Shoving seashells in her ears isolate her from her husband
- Hard time for him
Seashells
Books Motif
- Books= The debacle of Montag’s city
- City lost sanity and education
- Became a horrible place for humans to live
Books
Allusions
Bradbury uses many allusions to add contrast, emphasis, imagery, and more.
Allusions
Dreamthorp Allusion
- Adds immense contrast
- Books bombard Montag's shoulders
- Dreamthorp: time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine
- Adds contrast; empasizes how rapid Montag's society is
Dreamthorp
Lilliputians Allusion
- Lilliputians = tiny people
- told to break eggs from the smaller end; kings son cut himself from the larger end of the egg
- Lilliputians could have complied to the law; however they chose to rebel
- Montag chose to rebel as well
- Lilliputians and Montag chose to challenge the law
The
Lilliputians
Foreshadowing
- Foreshadowing is when something in the story is an indication of what will happen in the future
Foreshadowing
Page 25 Foreshadowing
Page 25
“‘That’s why,’ said Montag, ‘ I wouldn’t want to be its [the Hound] next victim.’
‘Why? You got a guilty conscience about something [said Beatty]?’
Montag glanced up swiftly” (Bradbury, 25).
Page 8
“He stood looking up at the ventilator grill in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grill, something that seemed to peer down at him now. He moved his eyes quickly away” (Bradbury, 8).
Page 8
Diction
Bradbury uses deliberate diction and syntax with meaningful assonance and consonance sounds to establish a mood, contrast, and stress certain points.
Diction
Page 1
- "burn,” “with,” “pleasure,” and “to"
- “Burn” is repeated three times
- "With” is repeated four times.
- "Pleasure is used twice
- “To” is used five times
- One can make the given sentence starter: “With the pleasure to burn.”
- The author adds a possible subject of the theme: the pleasure of fire.
Page 37
“Beatty flicked his fingers to spark the kerosene.”
- "f" sounds to create a contrast between bonfire and tiny flick of fire
- sounds = can be said to create tiny stress on object; adds satisfied and contempt mood
- Bradbury stress how tiny problem could = enormous problem
Page 37
Symbolism
- Used to show ideas without having to explain
- Deeper meaning can be explained by using objects and symbols
Symbolism
The Hearth and the Salamander
- The hearth is a fireplace
- The salamander can withstand fire
- The hearth represents society as a whole
- . The salamander represents the books
The Hearth and the Salamander
Fahrenheit 451
- Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper burns.
- Since fire is the central motif, this is the first appearance of fire
Fahrenheit 451
Characterization
The use of characterization in any story is necessary, but in Fahrenheit the use of characterization is the most essential element of the story.
Characterization
Montag's Characterization
Montag
- Pages 1-7: Montag is society's everyman (hence his name "guy")
- Expectations of his society is following the law
- If there were no rules, no one would follow rules
- Montag laughs about not being able to read books he burns -- which characterizes him as society's everyman
Beatty's Characterization
Beatty
- Beatty is characterized as intimidating + suspicious of Montag
- Beatty blinks slowly; like if a mother asks her child if he broke the vase
- Suspicious of how Montag talks
- Beatty is described on page 30 as possibly standing up and exploring his guilt and self-consciousness