Fahrenheit 451 Part One Flashcard

It is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns.

They allow it to be kept for 24 hours and then they come and burn it.

They are a kind of surround television with which the audience could interact.

The phoenix symbolizes the ability to survive fires.

It is described as a tomb-world, complete darkness, and mausoleum, but not sunlight.

Books are banned and considered dangerous to society.

Firemen burn books and enforce the law against reading.

The conflict between individual thought and societal conformity.

Mildred is Montag's wife, and she is obsessed with technology, particularly the parlor walls.

Montag begins to question the value of his society's anti-book stance and his own happiness.