Themes, symbols and motifs

Theme: Is the main idea or message of a literary work. In the case of literature, it is the view about life and how people behave.

• Technology: During the whole story, technology is present and has a very important role in the society. The technology is futuristic, very advanced and controls most of the society by radio that is directly introduced in each ear, walls that talk with people, war advances such as atomic bombs and cars with very high speed. The author critiques technology by his book and shows the negative impact in society for over using this, the destructive potential that has on each person.

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• Audience and purpuse: The image target all the people, because is futurist technology that is useful and interesting for all the society. In fahrenheit 451, the author wants to show how technology is harmful for society.
• Context/ Theme: There is a woman with a digital wall as in the book fahrenheit 451. It shows the future technology.
• Tone/mood: The image is exiting, to see new technology advance.
• Stylistic devices: The colors of the image are bright, do to this, they bring atention and motivation.
• Structure: The woman has a digital bord or wall. White dress and the background is blue.

Symbols: Are known as objects, characters, figures and colors to represent and idea or concept.

One of the symbols in the novel are mirrors:

Basicly, this symbol appears at the end of the novel, it represents the self- understanding, recognizing mistakes and seeing things in the most clear form. Do to this,  Granger says that they should build or construct a mirror factory for their society that is collapsing.

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• Audience/purpose: The image target an analitical person. The author wish to make people realise that mirrors are clear, and self-understanding should be too.
• Content/theme: In the image there is a women looking at herself and her face shows, worring and analizing herself.
• Tone/mood: The image makes the audience analize the face of the women. It builds feelings of curious and analizys.
• Stylistic devices: The colours of the images are dark and do to this it creates a suspense or misterious feeling.
• Structure:The woman is stand up and putting her hands in the mirror with a worried face.

Motifs: Are the writing "helps". Recurring structures , literary devices and others that make more easy the understanding of the novel and the development of the information.

An example of motif in the book fahrenheit 415 is religion. The bible is used for quotations to explain different themes during the whole story. Also, the author uses the bible to compare with facts in the story.

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• Audience/Purpose:This image atracts religious people, in specific the christians. The author by relating religion in the book wanted to teach the good actions that the people in the bible maked compared to his terrible society in his book.
• Content/Theme: The image is religius since it has a cross and a bible.
• Tone/Mood:The image is peaceful since it is related to God. 
• Stylistic devices: The colors like black and yellow bright in the background represents the glory of the bible and the Christian religion.
• Structure: There is the Christian cross and a bible that are some of the fundamental symbols of the religion.

Figures of speech- Fahrenheit 451

Here we have some examples of figures of speech that are included in the book "Fahrenheit 451".

Simile:

pg. 95-" The three empty walls of the room were like the pale brows of sleeping giants, now empty of dreams.

It is a simile because two unlike things are being compared. (walls of the room, pable brows of sleeping giants)

Metaphor:

pg 90: I'm the Queen Bee, safe in the hive.  You will be the drone, the traveling ear."

It is a metaphor because a ter mis applied to something to wich is not literally applicable in order to suggest a remblance. (Queen, drone. Hive, traveling ear)

Anaphora:

"One drop of rain. Clarisse. Another drop. Mildred. A third. The uncle. A fourth. The

fire tonight. One, Clarisse. Two, Mildred. Three, uncle. Four, fire, One, Mildred, two,

Clarisse. One, two, three, four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping-tablets,

men, disposable tissue, coat-tails, blow, wad, flush, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire,

tablets, tissues, blow, wad, flush. One, two, three, one, two, three! Rain. The storm."

This is an anaphora because it repeats the words of one, two and three.

Irony:

“Beatty, you're not a problem now. You always said, don't face a problem, burn it. Well, now I've done both. Good-bye, Captain.” (Bradbury 55)

The irony in this story is that Montag kills Captain Beatty using Beatty’s own advice against him.  Captain Beatty told Montag, “A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it.” (Bradbury 53)  Apparently Montag listened to Beatty’s advice, perhaps too well.  When Beatty informed Montag that he would have to burn his own house and then be put under arrest this became a problem.  What really pushed Montag to kill Captain Beatty, however was that Beatty discovered the earpiece in Montag’s ear and said that he would trace it back to whoever was on the other end, Faber.  Montag would not let Beatty harm Faber so he killed him, thus getting rid of the problem.

Hyperbole

"Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume."(p.55)

This is a hyperbole because it exaggerates the situation making it sound like it was an eternity to wait until classics cut radio shows.