Allegory :
“...Trying to fill a sieve with sand….And the faster he poured, the faster it sifted through with a hot whispering. His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty” (Page 78).
Montag remembers a childhood memory of him at the sea pouring sand through a sieve. The memory represents sand as knowledge and the sieve represents the mind. Bradbury uses this to show that when knowledge is poured into the mind, the mind cannot take knowledge.
Allusion:
“First fireman: Benjamin Franklin” (Page 34).
This allusion of Benjamin Franklin shows irony. He was the creator of early fire brigades and he created them to stop fire and not to start it. But the firemen see him as the first firemen because he is responsible of the burning of English Influenced books.
Alliteration:
“Denham’s dentifrice, Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent…” (Page 79).
The repetition are used in the novel to increase the noise in the society and that noise is a disruption to the mind This strategy is used from society to disrupt people’s thinking.
Imagery:
“Now the dry smell of hay, the motion of the waters, made him think of sleeping in fresh hay in a lonely barn away from the loud highways, behind a quiet farmhouse, and under a windmill that whirred…” (Page 142).
This creates a peaceful and calm image. After escaping from the Hound Montag starts to think and create a brain image of a happier place away from his society.
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EFFECT ON THE READER
Irony:
“..he heard the fire sirens start up and run, and the Salamanders coming to burn Mr. Black house…” (Page 130).
The fireman are coming to burn Black’s house who is a fireman and Montag is the responsible of this because he put a book on his house. The irony is that they are going to burn the house of fireman whose job is to burn houses.
Simile:
“His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and hid in pockets, moving from under Beatty’s alcoholic-flame stare” (Page 101).
This shows that Montag has been stealing books and hiding them from the government. Montag’s feeling in his fingers shows the movement he makes when he steals a book and how he feels that they are evil because he is doing something wrong in the eyes of the society.
Simile:
“How like a beautiful statue of ice it was, melting in the sun. I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths” (Page 89).
This shows how fast people stopped buying newspapers and how people prefered to use electronics for news and entertainment. This shows how Montag society is and how the electronics replaced everything.
EFFECT ON THE READER
These stylistic devices help the reader to understand the story better. The book is filled with irony and many metaphors that helps the reader to see the real meaning of the dystopian society from the book.
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The book shows a world that is completely technological and where ignorance rules over knowledge. In that society people are banned from reading books and they are burned. This is shown on the novel when people react in a harsh way towards books and they kill everything that has to do with books and knowledge. People don’t question the society and they go with the flow instead of being independent and having freedom.
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