Humanity’s Legacy in “Heart of Darkness” Religion, myth, and stories are literature essential to the history of humankind and are passed through generations. These literary and oral pieces build humanity’s collective unconscious. From this collective unconscious, intuitive archetypes are derived, with more literature added to each generation to contribute to this generationally passed bank of […]
Marlow’s Glimpse: Brutality in the Congo In Heart of Darkness, author Joseph Conrad portrays the systematic racism that drove European Colonialism of Africa, as any individual sympathizing with African humanity is discarded by the colonizers. Marlow, a retired colonizer, recounts his experience in the Belgian Congo while in the employ of the Company, a European […]
Burning Books: Society’s Disturbing Standard Dystopia is “a world in which everything is imperfect, and everything goes terribly wrong.” Fahrenheit 451’s society is living in this type of world, and it is very different from the society that we live in today. In Fahrenheit 451, firemen burn both books and the houses that contain them. […]
Bradbury’s Exploration of Oppression in “Fahrenheit 451” Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, originally published in 1953, is a dystopian novel that imagines a world in which the prevalence of television and audiovisual media of all kinds has become a means of oppression. The written book has been banned, and with this taboo comes a number of various […]
Montag’s Journey: A Fireman’s Revelation in Fahrenheit 451 When someone tries to fix one thing, another thing can get ruined. In the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, one individual attempts to change society’s perspective on the idea of censoring books. This was an action that turned into a disaster. In the story, […]
Media Censorship’s Stark Forecast Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel written by Ray Bradbury, whose main focus in this piece is warning those who read it of the censorship of media and prediction literature. Science fiction, in its early stages, was based around the idea of forbidden knowledge being discovered and then bringing destruction and […]
Montag’s Transformation: From Blindness to Enlightenment In the literary work Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the reader is introduced to an interesting society that’s much different from the society and world we live in today. At the beginning of the novel, the main character, Guy Montag, is lost and confused about his life; however, he […]
