Rhetorical Analysis Of Fahrenheit 451

Passage: “Her face was like a snow-covered island apom=n which rain might fall, but it felt no rain…”(11)

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author, Ray Bradbury, uses diction to deliver his message of disturbing the status quo. What i believe Ray means when he says disturbing the status quo is breaking away from what is considered normal in this society. The way he gets his message across is appealing to the masses is because we can not only relate to the characters but we can clearly understand what he is saying because we may have gone through the same thing. In the articles The Invisible Influence: How our Decisions Are Rarely our Own by Jonah Burger and Why do people follow the crowd? By Dr. Gregory Burns they both discuss the same message Bradbury is pushing for. “You don't make your own decisions because it may not relate to what other people say or to what society wants.”

Thomas Jefferson once said, “That government is best which governs least…”. In Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury, the government puts extreme laws in place to “protect” the people. Except, that these laws keep the citizens from knowing the truth. The good laws like speed limit aren’t enforced and the things that shouldn’t matter, like owning a book, are so strongly enforced, that if it is you that is found to own a book, your house will be burnt down. The government keeps everyone in check by censoring the citizens. During the 1950’s, the entire country was in fear of communism. There was a blacklist of authors, actors, and public figures. No one would hire them or buy their work. Bradbury wanted to warn the country of what could happen if it continued being ignorant , and by using pathos, rhetorical questions, and repetition, he effectively conveyed his purpose.

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 presents readers with multiple themes. In the fictional society of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, books are banned and firemen create fires instead of putting them out. Bradbury portrays the society as dystopian. Bradbury crafted the novel to be interpreted intellectually. The characters claim to be happy. However, the reader can conclude otherwise. Bradbury creates a question for the reader to answer: Is ignorance bliss or does the ability to think for oneself create happiness? Bradbury shows the importance of self-reflection, happiness and the ability to think for oneself as well as isolation due to technology, and the importance of nature and animals. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury conveys the stories’ themes through characterization and symbols.

In Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, and “There Will Come Soft Rains,” the authors, Ray Bradbury and Lois Lowry, portray a dysfunctional world that has dehumanized its people. All three literary works display a world where the minds of people are twisted. They support the theory that technology takes away everything that makes humans unique. In these stories, the society that the main characters live in is too dependent on technology, resulting in people with empty, meaningless lives.

Bradbury uses a lot of imagery in the passage because it was in the beginning of the book and he wanted the readers to understand what was happening. “He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark.” , this was a very detailed phrase of imagery because it gave the readers great idea of what

Although the rhetorical devices used throughout this book are exceptional, the themes are what makes Fahrenheit 451 so popular. Rhetorical Analysis Bradbury uses sentence structures, including complicated sentences and polysyndeton to paint a picture for the readers as if they are in the character’s lives. Describing Montag’s hands while starting a fire, Bradbury stated, “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a novel that illustrates what could happen to our society in the future. The novel portrays a society in which books, excluding comic books and other simple technical books, are banned and burned for the good of the society as the people believed. The books are seen as a source of unhappiness and, therefore, the society has decided to Ban them and put the fireman in charge of maintaining the censorships. I believe that books are not only banned because they make people unhappy but because they make people unequal. I believe that censorship of books is indented to make everyone in the society equal.

The Queen’s Arsenal: RHETORICAL WEAPONS OF WAR “Big arms can move rocks, But big words can move mountains” - Sylvester Stallone,  In Queen Elizabeth's “Speech to the troops at Tilbury”, Elizabeth utilizes various rhetorical strategies including the use of biblical/ Religious references, repetition, and emotional appeals, in conjunction with her language structure and diction, to craft an effective speech that works to develop a captivating image of victory in the minds of soldiers in order to motivate and convince them to fight the Spanish armada and prevent them from conquering England. Queen Elizabeth uses biblical/ Religious references throughout the speech to generate credibility as god is a “credible” figure, she uses the phrases “under

“Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator. He caught her, shrieking. He held her and she tried to fight away from him scratching,” (63). In the novel Fahrenheit 451 follows the protagonist, Guy Montag, and his interactions with society discouraging and encouraging his discovery of the illegal books. Along the way he understands who are the poisonous people in his dystopian world and who are not; changing his perspective to lose trust in his wife Mildred, from previous quote, and finding safety with Faber, a retired professor he came by one day in a park. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author demonstrates the idea that when there is censorship in the world, ignorance will follow because when a subject is hidden from one anything they do regarding it is under the impression of their lack of knowledge surrounding the topic, this becomes more relevant when Ray Bradbury acknowledges the emotions of people who have read books and whom haven't and their general opinions of them.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury there is a clear and unique style of writing. In many parts of the book, Bradbury writes with a formal mood. Montag, the main character, is going on a journey of finding himself through all of the people around him; characters such as Clarisse , Faber, and Granger help him find his true happiness, while Mildred and Beatty lie and believe books only separate people more , creating the society to break into minorities, yet both of these characters express major depression and an ignorant attitude towards the message that Montag is trying to give .Bradbury uses significant events with tone, mood, diction, sentence structure, and figurative language to accentuate rhythm of the book and get the attention

The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in an urban, nameless city around the year 2053. Bradbury wrote the novel in 1953, and set the novel a century later. In this futuristic novel, there is a very sad and gloomy feeling. It also has a feeling of emptiness and unhappiness; this was caused by the government regulations and societal views, along with the absence of knowledge and communication. These crucial elements in the story all contribute to the overall mood in Fahrenheit 451.

The gloomy tone in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury reveals the conventional attitudes that were present in the novel. Bradbury initially created these complex characters to allow readers to perceive what he wanted changed. The novel is set in a dictatorial society that runs on strange technological equipment that has diminished humans of their initial purpose, creating a gloomy tone in which the author expresses his aspiration for change.  The author emphasized how dead the society was, as he constantly compared everything to death.

Ray Bradbury’s style of writing the book Fahrenheit 451 is very unique. He sets a mood of dystopia. Bradbury uses literary devices and makes the language from the characters very rebellious to how they are supposed to be living. The world the characters live in is controlled and people have little personal freedom.

Bradbury uses certain techniques of writing very differently. Bradbury wrote the book using a varienty of sentence lengths and structures, but used many long, continuous sentences, such as "Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall to the kitchen, where he stood a long time watching the rain hit the windows before he came back down the hallin th gray light, waiting for the tremble to