Fahrenheit 451 Flashcards
Icarus
Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun, and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why.
Lady Macbeth + Montag’s guilt
Montag felt the guilt of his hands.
Faber, mouth, cheeks, hair, eyes, vague blueness.
There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there.
Clarisse’s face, gentle hunger, curiosity.
In it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity.
Mildred, stretched, uncovered, tomb.
His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb.
Mildred, straw, reddened, praying mantis, bacon.
Brittle straw, reddened pouting lips, thin as a praying mantis from dieting, flesh like white bacon.
Mirror factory
We’re going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.
Like a chandelier.
They were like a monstrous chandelier, tinkling in a thousand chimes.
Denham’s dentifrice.
The people were pounded into submission.
Birds.
They fell like slaughtered birds.
Pigeon-winged
The flapping pigeon-winged books.
Roasted birds, red and orange feathers.
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and orange feathers.
Plato’s cave.
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave.
The solid unmoving cattle.
The Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority.
Clarisse - bothered about something.
We need to really be bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, something real.
