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Fahrenheit 451 Study Guide

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by Ray Bradbury
About 92 pages (27,562 words)
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Social Sensitivity

Fahrenheit 451 is very clearly a defense of literacy and the free use of the imagination as central human virtues.

Bradbury emphasizes this theme when Montag's superior officer states:

You always dread the unfamiliar.

Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally "bright" ... . And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and torture after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike.

Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal.

Bradbury is reacting here to a central paradox of.....

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