blog 9 sybolism and imagery

FAHRENHEIT 451
Sept. 19, 2012

Define SYMBOLISM

Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.^[1] A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself, often of a more abstract nature.





LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism






DEFINE IMAGERY
Imagery, in a literary text, occurs when an author uses an object that is not really there, in order to create a comparison between one that is, usually evoking a more meaningful visual experience for the reader.^[1] It is useful as it allows an author to add depth and understanding to his work, like a sculptor adding layer and layer to his statue, building it up into a beautiful work of art.





LINK:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagery



Discuss three different uses of symbolism and imagery in the book, "Fahrenheit 451." Post a picture of this image with each description.

In the beginning of “The Hearth and the Salamander,”Montag’s bedroom is described first as “not empty” and then as “indeed empty,” because Mildred is physically there, but her thoughts and feelings are elsewhere. Bradbury’s repeated use of such paradoxical statements—especially that a character or thing is dead and alive or there and not there—is frequently applied to Mildred, suggesting her empty, half-alive condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blood appears throughout the novel as a symbol of a human being’s repressed soul or primal, instinctive self. Montag often“feels” his most revolutionary thoughts welling and circulating in his blood. Mildred, whose primal self has been irretrievably lost, remains unchanged when her poisoned blood is replaced with fresh, mechanically administered blood by the Electric-Eyed Snake machine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The title of the second part of Fahrenheit 451, “The Sieve and the Sand,” is taken from Montag’s childhood memory of trying to fill a sieve with sand on the beach to get a dime from a mischievous cousin and crying at the futility of the task. He compares this memory to his attempt to read the whole Bible as quickly as possible on the subway in the hope that, if he reads fast enough, some of the material will stay in his memory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LINK:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/themes.html