Theme Of Change In Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

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Ray Bradbury wrote his novel, Fahrenheit 451, during the Cold War. Although he initially wanted to warn people about the danger that technology can greatly affect a society and community for the worst, Bradbury 's novel was interpreted as commentary for censorship at the time he was writing the novel. His use of many examples of reality was thought to emphasize this point. Even so, the main character of the novel is an example of a drastic dynamic character. A dynamic character usually undergoes a transformation in relation to events of the plot. Ray Bradbury’s dynamic character in Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, undergoes a transformation throughout the novel that is influenced by his interactions with other characters and his feelings of separation from society as he explores himself through reflection in books.

The second theme, that Ray Bradbury discusses is the change occurring around Mr and Mrs Bittering. In the story, it is said that very dim gold flecks are starting to appear in the eyes of the humans. Also, the plants that they are growing on Mars are changing in colour, as is the taste of food. These show change, everything is changing and is out of the Bitterings control. With the food and their bodies changing, this is presented as creating a great fear inside the character. One I experience fear that was when I moved from our farm into the city. It was the biggest change of my life, moving from 20,000 acre of land surrounding me to only ¼ of an acre. This created great fear inside me because I have never lived in a town before or gone to a school with 500 students. I felt claustrophobic in town and scared. The Martians must have something to do with the change of the humans on mars and have in some way felt like me. The changing of them could be some kind of punishment to the humans because they have invaded there land.

The Martian Chronicles is a novel where earth inhabitants decide to make a new life on Mars. There is a fantasy-like idealism that the people have with Mars, and believe that the planet will create total bliss, but the problem with this is that there are citizens who already created an established life and are unhappy with the new visitors from Earth. In reality, travelling to a new place and expecting it to overwrite everything they’ve ever experienced, can result in unfulfillment.

Despite Ray Bradbury’s warning in, The Martian Chronicles, human greed has lead to the destruction of culture. The opposition would claim that the destruction of culture is a natural process, on the other hand, because of human greed the destruction of culture has been drastically sped up. For example, an article from Achieve3000 shows a connection between the erosion of the Easter Island Moais and the longing for people to see them. According to Susana Nahoe, an archaeologist from Chile, “More tourism, more deterioration. More visitors, more loss” (qtd. by Achieve3000 staff). This statement explains that because of the human greed to see the Moais for themselves, they cause harm to the ancient statues. In addition, an article from Newsela

Tension, humor, and foreshadowing are some examples of elements that readers will find in The Martian. In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney is left behind on Mars. Because of a dust storm, Mark's teammates believe that he is dead and left him behind. The Martian is a science fiction book that gives readers an idea of how people might be able to colonize Mars and gives readers an idea of what space is like. The Martian has an author that self-published his book, and who used humor and foreshadowing to keep his readers engaged.

Ray Bradbury was an American author born on August 22, 1920 who died on June 5, 2012 at the age of 91. Bradbury was a prolific and beloved writer who wrote many novels considered today to be staples of the science fiction genre such as Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Martian Chronicles (www.biography.com). The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories Bradbury wrote over several years detailing the colonization of mars by humans. Present in this collection of stories are a number of themes portraying the weaknesses of mankind. In these stories are tales of corporate greed, mental illness, religious zealotry, gullible ignorance,

Where to begin? In the beginning of the book Red Mars, the character Arkady states that “History is not evolution! It is a false analogy! Evolution is a matter of environment and chance, acting over millions of years. But history is a matter of environment and choice, acting within lifetimes, and sometimes within years, or months, or days! History is Lamarckian! ” (Robinson 88). Arkady is stating that we choose our own history. Over the course of the book, the story of Mars twists and turns, and becomes something completely different. Mars changes from red to green.

Can it be possible for people to change how they see and interpret the world? In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Montag leaves his past, ultimately changing the way he thinks. In the passage Montag has just escaped the Hound as well as his previous life, and is being carried away by the river into the forest while thinking about his future. The revelation in this passage is a culmination of all the knowledge that Montag acquires throughout the book. Ray Bradbury conveys to the reader how finally leaving his old world has completed the change inside of Montag through the use of metaphors and repetition.

“March 2000: The Taxpayer” in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, is an interchapter that focuses on how Pritchard (a typical taxpayer) wants to get on the spaceship to Mars. The purpose of this short chapter is to provide foreshadowing to both the atomic war and civilian immigration to Mars. The reason why this chapter was written is that during 1950 (when this book was written), Ray Bradbury wanted to voice his opinion that the construction of atomic bombs will lead to war.

The Martian is arguably one of my favorite books because of the fantastic tone and character development. The Martian follows Mark Watney, a scientist who majored in botany and mechanical science. He get stranded on mars after a dust storm knocks out communications with NASA and the rest of his crew leaves when they believe he is dead from shrapnel in the storm.

In The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury there are many differences between humans and martians. One of the biggest ones, aside from the obvious being from different planets, physical appearance, and telepathy is that the humans want everything to do with the martians while the martians want nothing to do with the humans. This is shown by the humans knocking on doors constantly and even just walking into a martians house in “The Earth Men” and by the martians ignoring or even killing the humans before they even interact with them much.

     Another theme Bradbury uses to gain the reader's attention is time travel. In his tenth story in The Martian Chronicles, 'Night Meeting';, Bradbury uses time travel to convey more of his ideas of Mars. 'There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people?'; Bradbury uses all of man's senses to express his feelings of what exactly Time is. By doing so, the reader has a clearer understanding of Bradbury's point of view. 'He

Space is the infinite frontier! Its vast emptiness provides a blank slate for authors, limited only by their imaginations. Being the closest planet to Earth, the red planet, named Mars, is the natural setting for allegorical and dystopian novels. Martian society can be a symbol of hope for the future. Novelist can create fictional societies on Mars and use them to contrast the problems on Earth.