The symbols in the book helped to
have a better understanding of the story. Some of the symbols are shown below.
Books are symbols because their importance is much more
than few pages with a cover, they represent knowledge, and because they are prohibited, reading books mean opposition, and resistence. The novel reports that books were burned because they
were dangerous to the society, they had contain different contradictory ideas, so they cause different thinkings.
For example, Faber said Montag that he was looking books not because of their content, he was looking something that only books can gave him.
For example, Faber said Montag that he was looking books not because of their content, he was looking something that only books can gave him.
"There must be
something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning
house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." (Page
48)
“The Sieve and the
Sand”;
Is the title of the second part of “Fahrenheit 451”, it is taken for Montag’s childhood, when he was a child he tried to fill a sieve with sand of the beach, in exchange of dime, obviously this task was impossible. Montag compared this memory when we was in the subway trying to read the Bible as fast as he could, hoping that some of this information will remain. While an announcement for toothpaste keeps distracting him.
Sand is shown as a symbol that represents knowledge the that we wanted, while the sieve is the mind trying to retain knowledge, the sieve and the sand showed that in the society knowledge is ephemeral. Because books as this work already mention are more than just text or information.
“Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of the blue and hot summer day, trying to fill a sieve with sand, because some cruel cousin had said, "Fill this sieve and you'll get a dime!" `And the faster he poured, the faster it sifted through with a hot whispering. His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, and the sieve was empty. Seated there in the midst of July, without a sound, he felt the tears move down his cheeks.” (Page 74)
The mechanical hound;
It is a mechanical animal that was design to analyzed human behavior in order to control and know when someone is thinking or acting in a revolutionary way that can affect society stability. In many parts of the book the mechanical hound shows that Montag’s behaviors were not “normal”, even before Montag showed his widen books to Mildred. This symbol represents repression and control over people, because people cannot act as they want, they act as government or society wanted to act.
". . . Mechanical Hound never fails. Never since its first use in tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake.” (Page 126)
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