Ray Bradbury, an American author, lived from 1920-2012. Bradbury was born in the town of Waukegan, Illinois and began writing when he was young. Bradbury is mainly known for two of his major pieces of writing: Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury uses repetition, symbolism, allusions, and imagery to create books that are fascinating and grab the reader’s attention. Most importantly, dichotomy is a style that Bradbury uses in both Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Dichotomy contrasts two objects, or people, by making them polar opposites. Bradbury uses dichotomy both similarly and differently within the two novels. Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes both portray a dichotomy theme of
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When Montag first meets Clarisse at the beginning of the novel, Bradbury states, “the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them. Her dress was white and it whispered.” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 5). Montag is the dark eyes Bradbury talks about and Clarisse is the girl in the white dress. Darkness is usually described as a bad trait and white generally symbolizes purity and goodness. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, the light and dark theme is shown through the characters and setting. Charles Halloway is shown as the light through his intelligence, knowledge, and bravery. Mr. Halloway claims, “I’m a fool. Always looking over your shoulder to see what’s coming than right at you to see what’s here. (Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes 195). In this moment, Mr. Halloway realizes what he has done wrong with his life and has reached a stage of self-realization. In Fahrenheit 451, the same concept of self-realization happens to Guy Montag. Once Montag meets Faber, he realizes what he has done wrong in his past and ultimately change his ways once he kills Captain Beatty. The carnival, the setting throughout most of the book, illustrates the darkness in Something Wicked This Way Comes through the …show more content…
Montag is a completely opposite character from Faber and Clarisse. Faber, with the knowledge he possesses claims: “He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 103). Faber is trying to explain how different Montag and he are, but how they need each other to live in harmony. Faber and Montag need each other to balance the other. Montag needs Faber to remind him of the good in life, and Faber needs Montag to remind him of the evil. Montag is a fireman who has lost his way on the path of life. When Montag talks to Clarisse he affirms: “Kerosene, it is nothing but perfume to me” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 6). Montag is walking down the wrong path in his life. Instead of putting out fires, he is creating them by burning books. The smell of kerosene will always be a part of him and his careless past, no matter what he does next in life. The reader can relate to Montag in this quote by Bradbury. Montag can never get rid of what he did in his past, just like the reader cannot erase a part their ignorant past. In Fahrenheit 451, the dichotomy theme of technology vs. nature is depicted. In part two of Fahrenheit 451, Mildred is shown as, “Seashell tamped in her ear again, and she was listening
When Montag first meets Clarisse at the beginning of the novel, Bradbury states, “the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them. Her dress was white and it whispered.” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 5). Montag is the dark eyes Bradbury talks about and Clarisse is the girl in the white dress. Darkness is usually described as a bad trait and white generally symbolizes purity and goodness. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, the light and dark theme is shown through the characters and setting. Charles Halloway is shown as the light through his intelligence, knowledge, and bravery. Mr. Halloway claims, “I’m a fool. Always looking over your shoulder to see what’s coming than right at you to see what’s here. (Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes 195). In this moment, Mr. Halloway realizes what he has done wrong with his life and has reached a stage of self-realization. In Fahrenheit 451, the same concept of self-realization happens to Guy Montag. Once Montag meets Faber, he realizes what he has done wrong in his past and ultimately change his ways once he kills Captain Beatty. The carnival, the setting throughout most of the book, illustrates the darkness in Something Wicked This Way Comes through the …show more content…
Montag is a completely opposite character from Faber and Clarisse. Faber, with the knowledge he possesses claims: “He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 103). Faber is trying to explain how different Montag and he are, but how they need each other to live in harmony. Faber and Montag need each other to balance the other. Montag needs Faber to remind him of the good in life, and Faber needs Montag to remind him of the evil. Montag is a fireman who has lost his way on the path of life. When Montag talks to Clarisse he affirms: “Kerosene, it is nothing but perfume to me” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 6). Montag is walking down the wrong path in his life. Instead of putting out fires, he is creating them by burning books. The smell of kerosene will always be a part of him and his careless past, no matter what he does next in life. The reader can relate to Montag in this quote by Bradbury. Montag can never get rid of what he did in his past, just like the reader cannot erase a part their ignorant past. In Fahrenheit 451, the dichotomy theme of technology vs. nature is depicted. In part two of Fahrenheit 451, Mildred is shown as, “Seashell tamped in her ear again, and she was listening