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Fahrenheit 451 R ay Bradbury . The temperature at which paper burns. Fahrenheit 451 was written in 1953 as an American satire set in the 24 th century .
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Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury The temperature at which paper burns
Fahrenheit 451was written in 1953 as an American satire set in the 24th century. • Satire is the literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, indignation, or scorn. • Satire depends on its audience understanding irony or the difference between what is shown and what actually is.
Fahrenheit 451… Directs its sarcasm not at specific institutions but at anti-intellectualism Directs its sarcasm at materialism. Depicts a world in which the American dream has turned into a nightmare because it has been superficially understood.
At the center of the novel is Montag’s slowly rising consciousness of the emptiness of his life and the lure of ideas to fill that emptiness. http://raybradbury.com/images/video/wilshire_blvd.html