![]() The syntax and structure of some sentences were very crucial to convince the reader and Guy why the things Beatty is telling them is true and applies to most of the population. But using a hyperbole in this case is effective because it tells Guy that people were very happy and glad that books stopped selling, so it intensifies the fact that they were happy. The thing being exaggerated is the fact that people were glad. The figurative language used in this sentence is “spinning happily” (55) and that is a hyperbole. An example of this is when Beatty tells Guy that “But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comicbooks survive.” (55). ![]() He uses idioms, hyperboles and a lot of other forms of figurative language in the novel. The figurative language of the passage is very prominent and essential for Captain Beatty to tell Guy about the state of the world. That shows that technology is one of the main reason that the government is manipulating everyone and is very important to the overall plot of the novel. Guy know this because his wife is always watching tv. Beatty tells Guy that technology is one of the big reasons that books aren’t around anymore. This is also shown when Beatty says “Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick (to end books)” (Bradbury 55). In this passage Beatty talks about how technology eventually got rid of all of the books because in book people rely on tv for happiness as he mentions in another part of the book. ![]() Technology plays a really big role in this story and in this passage. So, captain Beatty came to talk to him about it. Guy questions why they must burn down houses with books and is shocked that he killed a woman. He didn’t go to work because he recently burned down a house with a lot of books along with an old woman. Captain Beatty goes to Guy’s house, because he didn’t go to work that day. Some of the main themes of this book and passage are technology and modernization, since most of society is controlled by technology, and wisdom and knowledge, because Guy Montag inherits knowledge from multiple people in the book, in this section it was Captain Beatty giving him the knowledge. Fahrenheit 451 fits squarely into this dystopian literary tradition.This passage from Fahrenheit 451 is the most informative section of the book, it talks about the state of the world in the book. Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, are among the most-read dystopian novels and short stories of the past century. Rather than create ideal societies meant to serve as models for improvement, authors instead created dystopias, or nightmare societies, designed to sound a warning about modern society's problems. In the 20th century, fictionalized societies frequently took on a darker, oppressive aspect. Edward Bellamy, writing at the end of the 19th century, imagined an ideal future society in Looking Backward: 2000–1887. Plato's Republic is one of the earliest and best-known utopias, while Sir Thomas More's sixteenth century work Utopia gives the genre its name. Some authors have created utopias, or ideal states, with the intention to show how civilization might be improved. Many authors have created states and societies in their works of fiction and philosophy.
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