Fahrenheit 451 Flashcards
a leading character in a story who, unlike a traditional hero, lacks concetional heroic qualitites such as idelaism, courage, and morality😂
anti hero
a sudden realization
epiphany
about a future that is bleak, darks and dreary
dystopic novel
behavior that oberys the accepted rules of a society or group, and is the same as that of most people
conformity
communist
USSR
democratic
USA
government or political group using flase or half true information to persueade people to believe with them
propaganda
soemthing that contradicts itself but is true
paradox
the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconveient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor
censorship
without the ability to think about what we’re doing, we’ll be led to do wrong
ignorance of knowledge
The novel is written during
Cold War
what are symbols found in Fahrenheit 451
blood
fire
hearth and salamander
how does the government mentally and physically control people’s thoughts?
through technology
What new technology was broadcast for the first time in the 1950s
television
what did the Soviet Union launch that made people in the US paranoid
Sputnik
who launched a witch hunt against people that were Communist
joseph mccarthy
Which literary conventions does Fahrenheit 451 follow to convey a message that an oppressive government is oppressive to society
science fiction
what literary prise did Bradbury win in 2004`
Pulitzer Prize
sickly wife
Mildred
English professor
Faber
name that is also a paper company
Guy Montag
captain of the fire department
Beaty
17 year old outcast
Clarisse
leader of the Book People
Granger
