Similarly, in the novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, fire is used as a metaphor for the suppression of knowledge and the censorship of ideas, with the protagonist, Guy Montag, being a "fireman" whose job it is to burn books rather than to protect them. In this dystopian vision, fi...
[Am. Lit.: Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 in Weiss, 289]Florian miraculously extinguished conflagration; popularly invoked against combustion. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 126] Great Chicago Fire destroyed much of Chicago; it was supposedly started when Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern (1871)....
Fahrenheit 451 in an America of the future the fireman’s job is to burn all books that have been concealed from authorities. [Am. Lit.: Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 in Weiss, 289]Florian miraculously extinguished conflagration; popularly invoked against combustion. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 126] ...
Fahrenheit 451 in an America of the future the fireman’s job is to burn all books that have been concealed from authorities. [Am. Lit.: BradburyFahrenheit 451in Weiss, 289] Florian miraculously extinguished conflagration; popularly invoked against combustion. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 126] ...
Fahrenheit 451 in an America of the future the fireman’s job is to burn all books that have been concealed from authorities. [Am. Lit.: BradburyFahrenheit 451in Weiss, 289] Florian miraculously extinguished conflagration; popularly invoked against combustion. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 126] ...
Fahrenheit 451 in an America of the future the fireman’s job is to burn all books that have been concealed from authorities. [Am. Lit.: BradburyFahrenheit 451in Weiss, 289] Florian miraculously extinguished conflagration; popularly invoked against combustion. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 126] ...