• Dr. N.Lakshmi Priya

Fire and Knowledge are the two indistinguishable and emancipating elements that have the power of creation and destruction. It is left up to human beings to decide how this power could be employed in their journey of life. Ray Bradbury's iconic novel Fahrenheit 451 adduces a symbolic connection of fire, knowledge and the life of Guy Montag who struggles for existence and volition for thinking. Montag a fireman in a dystopian society is devoured with the task of destroying the past culture by burning outlawed ideas and knowledge stored in books. Being an agog partaker he says "It is pleasure to burn" (Bradbury 3). As an inconsiderate Montag does what has been told and this adventure comes to an end when Clarisse a seventeen year old girl questions "Are you happy?" (Bradbury 10). Even though he dismisses Clarisse's question as nonsense the aftermath of this question takes Montag to another life which he had never dreamt.

A Metaphor of Human Enlightment in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

"A Metaphor of Human Enlightment in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.983-985, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06202.pdf

"A Metaphor of Human Enlightment in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp983-985, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06202.pdf