Part 1 Flashcards
Great python
The fire hose, which resembles a great serpent, a key image in the novel, which serves as a reminder of Adam and Eve temptation to disobey God in the garden of Eden
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Temp books burn
Pigeon winged books
The box come alive and flap their wings as they’re thrown in to the fire. This connection between books and birds continues to get the tax, symbolizing Enlightenment through reading.
Black beetle colored helmet
Beetle with prominent black horns is connected with satan. Vehicles in this society also resemble beetles
Salamander
Visual representation of fire. In mythology it can live through a fire without burning
Phoenix
a mythical multicolored bird of Arabia with a long history of artistic and literary symbolism, the Phoenix is one of a kind. At the end of its 500 year edstence, it perches on its nest of spices and sings until sunlight ignites the mass. After the body is consumed in flames, a worm emerges from the ashes and develops into the next Phoenix.
Clarisse
Name develops from Latin for brightest
Guy montag
Name suggest two significant possibilities, guy Fawkes, instigator of a plot to blow up the English house of parliament in 1605, and Montag, a trademark of mead, an American paper company, which makes stationary and also the company that makes furnaces
Man in the moon
Perception of children, that the contours of the moon service, our face, which peers down at them. The image reflects the oppressive nature of a society that burns books
Moonstones
Opal with a pearly luster. Connected to mercury, the mythological guide who leads souls to the underworld.
Black cobra
Suction snake that pumps Mildred stomach repeats the earlier image of the python. The impersonal handyman have eyes of puff adders. The fact that it has an eye suggest a sinister and invasive fiber optic tube that examines the inside of the bodies organs between the soul.
Electronic bees
Futuristic, seashell ear thimbles, which block out thoughts, and replace them with mindless entertainment
TV parlor
A multi dimension of media family, which draws the viewer into the action, thereby replacing the viewers, real family
That’s what the lady said
Snappy stage come back, which Mildred uses in place of normal conversation
Proboscis
Snout or nose