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The Symbolic Dystopia presented in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Title: The Symbolic Dystopia presented in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Category: Literature / Biographies
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The Symbolic Dystopia presented in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury was born in August of 1920, and by the age of ten discovered the wealth of information available at his local library. However, no one imagined the creation he would write some thirty years later. First titled The Fireman, Fahrenheit 451 soon gained interest because of the anti-utopian setting in which the novel takes place. Bradbury uses the horrific idea of book burning in Fahrenheit 451 in response to the persecutions resulting from a fear of …showed first 75 words of 2336 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2336 total…Colmer, John. "Science Fiction." Coleridge to Catch-22. Boston: St. Martin's, 1978. 197-209.
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Books Burn." Literature and Its Times. Vol. 4. New York: Gale, 1994. 95-100.
Walt, Donald. "Burning Bright: Fahrenheit 451 as Symbolic Dystopia." Modern Critical
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