Fahrenheit 451 Flashcards
What are quotes Guy Montag has said?
-“It was a pleasure to burn.” (p. 9)
-‘There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a
burning house…’ (p. 68)
What are quotes Clarisse McCellan has said?
-“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” – Clarisse (p. 15)
What is the theme of Farenheit 451?
-Censorship
What happens to Clarisse?
Clarisse was run over and killed by a car and that her family moved away.
What is a quick summary of what the book is about?
Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel.
When around was this book based around?
-Temporal setting (Sometime in the twenty-fourth century)
What is the overall message of Farenheit 451?
The importance of knowledge in a society that can easily be corrupted by ignorance, censorship, and things designed to distract us from the realities of our world.
How does Mildred betray Montag?
Mildred turns her husband in to the authorities for illegally possessing books.
What happens to Mildred in the book?
She overdoses on sleeping pills when Montag asks her about it, she denies that she would do something like that. She has no memory of the event.
What does Mildred’s overdose symbolize?
It shows how fundamentally unhappy people are in this dystopia. The government wants everyone to be happy, which it aims to achieve by providing them with hours and hours of brainless entertainment on TV.
What does Montag do to Captain Beatty?
Montag kills Captain Beatty, fearing that he would kill Faber
Where does Montag go after killing Beatty?
Montag beats the other firemen who are there and then destroys the Mechanical Hound with the flamethrower.
what did Montag and the intellectuals believe their mission to be once the war was ended?
Help rebuild society by reintroducing the knowledge contained in the books they mesmorized
