THEME Fahrenheit 451

1. THEMEFahrenheit 451 Mr. Gurgen Period 6

2. Theme Television taking over people lives

3. P.74 “Well wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when it came down to it? Literally, not just one wall but, so far three! And expensive too!”

4. P. 50 “How long you figure, before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth TV put in?... If we had a fourth wall why it’d be just like this room wasn’t ours at all”

5. P.164 “ ‘One! Two!’ He felt the city rise. ‘Three.’ He felt the city turn to its thousands of doors. ‘Four.’ The people sleepwalking in their hallways. ‘Five.’ He felt their hands on the door knobs! ... ‘Six, Seven, Eight’ The door knobs turned on five thousand doors. ‘Nine.’ … ‘Ten.’ The doors opened. He imagine thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards,…”

6. Theme Ignorance is bliss, Thinking is pain

7. P.106 “Maybe they’re right maybe its best not to face things, to run have fun”

8. P.101 “It is because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world.”

9. P.115 “… the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze…”

10. Theme Utopian Idea, Dystopian outcome

11. P.123 “Its always someone else's husband dies… I’ve never known any dead man killed in war…”

12. P.102 “ I’ve heard rumors the world is starving, but we’re well bed. Is it true the world works hard and we play?”

13. P.89 “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it… Take your fight outside, better yet into the incinerator.”

14. End