Aesthetic/ TECHNIQUE by Abby Davey https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman REFLECTIONS ON the appeal (what pulls you in?), the reward or take away, the skill/mastery of the artist on display, the new/different/unusual. ALSO- REFLECTIONS ON Technique, Form/structure, Methods, Symbolism en-us 2017-03-13 06:32:32 UTC 2025-12-19 12:26:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png Sophie - Appeal https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688299 The appeal of F451 to me is the story's ability to both clearly and accurately predict the future of our rapidly modernising society.
Ray Bradbury correctly predicted the earbuds, televisions and even the rise of depression due to isolation from society.
I was fascinated by the hidden messages and meanings within the story and characters such as Clarisse drew me in. This is because Clarisse's mysterious charisma charmed me and her ability to oppose conformity within society was rare and beautiful. I loved her way of questioning life around her. I also was intrigued by the description of people's personality. For example, Mildred's ignorant, shallow and empty personality was frighteningly similar to today where people are caught up with how they look and social media. Quality of family time and social interactions has rapidly decreased and we are losing the art of conversation. 
I was also drawn in by the way that Bradbury wrote a novel about dismissing the importance of intelligence whereas today intelligence is regarded as an important trait. it opened up a new side to my thinking and it was hard to imagine a world without books - but parts of the story shared frightening parallels with today's society. ]]> 2017-03-17 01:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688299 Felicia https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688331 Something that really lured me in was the confrontation Montag has with Beatty after he's just stolen the book. Reading Beatty's explanation  for the menace of intelligence really stuck with me, because I do, in a slight sense, relate to what he's saying about society, including my own thoughts and occasional want of instant gratification and a 'snap ending'. The continuous repetition used in the scene had a huge impact and gives an impression to the extent to which actions had been taken, like how 'Digests' became 'Digest-digests, digest-digest-digest' and any information that would offend 'minor minor minorities' was removed.]]> 2017-03-17 01:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688331 Helen - Appeal https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688528 What appeals to me most in Fahrenheit 451 is the behavior of the people from this society. Shown through the characters such as Mildred and Beaty, people have become so empty, and anti-intelletual. Books are considered to be the reason for all discord and unhappiness because it contains different perspectives and ideas. The society in Fahrenheit 451 consider these perspectives and ideas as things that pulls people apart, but what it really does is that it unifies people's ideas. What scares me the most is that people now a days are actually developing towards the point where no one reads anymore. Most teenagers (the new generation) does not like reading, and does not read unless they have to including me. 
Also, just like what Bradbury predicted, technologies are overtaking people's passion to sit down and read.]]> 2017-03-17 01:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688528 Appeal- Erica https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688720 — The women that didn’t leave her home and was burned in her house with books 
— The significance of what she says pg 49 ‘Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out’ emphasising she would die for her books. 
— Latimer and Ridley burned for heresy (church saw anything done as crimes against God)
— Use of exclamation marks to show that the fireman, particularly Beatty would burn anything for their beliefs or opinions 
— Appealing and striking that Bradbury was able to use this example to reinforce how people would ‘burn’/ die for their beliefs. 
]]> 2017-03-17 01:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688720 Ashleigh - Appeal https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688722 - how accurately Bradbury has predicted the rise of technology --> how prominent and influential it has become in modern society
- message of the book is powerful  because we can see how relevant and accurate it is to us today 
- Makes readers think hard about their own lives... are we are on the way to becoming like Montag's society? Will technology consume our lives and strip us of our humanity like in F451?
- similarly, the reasons Beatty gives for getting rid of the books, and about offending people and minorities which relates to our society's mindset at the moment (especially on social media) and the rise of technology that makes it easier for humans to stay inside and avoid interaction (online shopping, netflix, online movies instead of going out, delivery food)
Techniques
 -call to action, preserve and value     books - knowledge - humanity.
- draw parallels between traits of characters and people in our own lives (possibly a bit exaggerated but the similarities are there)
-- connection between the children in book being raised by machines - - - we give iPads and technology to our children now to appease and care for them.
-shown through Mildred and her friends who care only for their 'family' the parlour walls, not their real family]]> 2017-03-17 01:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160688722 Dom - Appeal https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160689063 -  I found it confronting how casually they  disregarded Mildred attempting to commit suicide and how they  "pumped all the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum". It also confronted me how common suicide attempts were and that they get "these cases nine or ten a night"
- I was also drawn to the book because of how accurately Bradbury manages to represent the society we live in today, and how easy it is to relate to the characters in the book in one way or another
- The part of the book that also stood out for me was the women refusing to leave her house when the firemen were going to burn it down

]]> 2017-03-17 01:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160689063 https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160689129 2017-03-17 01:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160689129 Erin- Appeal https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160689231 Something that significantly appealed to me was the paradox of the hound being both living and not living, animate and inanimate. ]]> 2017-03-17 01:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160689231 Helen - Technique https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160703291 Bradbury used a lot of symbolisms in Fahrenheit 451 to convey different ideas. 
- Phoenix ( symbolising rebirth, restart.)
- Mirror (Granger said they should get a mirror symbolising self -reflection)
- Salamander ( fire-proof, symbol of firemen)
- Fire and water (Relating to baptism from the Bible)
- Insects or cold blood animals ( Bradbury relates technologies with insects and cold blooded animals. For example, when Mildred replaced her blood from the the machine, Bradbury described the machine like a snake. ]]> 2017-03-17 04:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160703291 Ebony-Jade - Take Away and Technique https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160705029 My take away from Bradbury’s F451 was Montag’s description of Mildred when she overdosed on her sleeping tablets. On page 21 Montag states, “Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow.” From my perspective, the underlying message is, society in F451 gets to a point where characters like Mildred feel empty and want to escape their life. Scarily, how Bradbury describes Mildred’s overdose is common in today’s society. People are so involved with technology and caught up in wrong crowds some people get to the point where they find things too hard and feel physically ill about how they don’t want to live. I did not to connect to this, but it made me realise this novel was written in 1953 and it has foreshadowed today’s world and how incapable some people are when they are not happy. ]]> 2017-03-17 05:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160705029 Georgia - Appeal and Take Away https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160908627
  • The thing that pulls me into the novel Fahrenheit 451 is the contrasts between Clarisse against Mildred and her friends. On one hand Clarisse is so free-spirited and unafraid to express herself, she is awed by the beauty of nature and interested by those around her. However, because of society’s fear of abnormality Clarisse is killed simply for being different. On the other hand Mildred and her friends are so oblivious to the real world. They spend their lives forming relationships with the ‘families’ in their tvs but have little to no bond with their own partners or children. They are so used to having such limited knowledge that when Montag reads them a poem they have no idea how to react. Their knowledge is so limited that they don’t even know how to begin to understand the poem and so instead they “sobbed uncontrollably” from a fear they didn’t understand.
  • I think that to a certain degree we, as a human race, are slowly evolving from Clarisse into Mildred. With the relatively recent introduction of modern technology and the rapid increase of popularity and usage since then, people are becoming more and more reliant on technology as well as losing the ability to form original thoughts. When we read a book we are allowing our imaginations to run wild and form our own original thoughts, images and ideas. However, when we watch a movie or tv show, all the thinking has been done for us. We are told what to think, what to imagine, and when to laugh. Our minds are less stimulated when watching television than when we are asleep, proving the lack of imagination, knowledge and creativity needed in Bradbury’s futuristic society. While this is not quite the case today, it is scary how in the not too distant future this may not be far from reality.

    • ]]>     2017-03-18 03:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160908627     Sindhu- Appeal https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160967078 The appeal of F451 for me is the foreshadowing of the future. Bradbury was able to picture and describe ‘little seashells’, predicting what we now know and use as earphones. He also predicts the television screens covering the walls, which can be seen in today’s society. Bradbury was able to clearly see where the world was heading as technology developed and changed the way we view things. 
    People do tend to watch TV mindlessly than read books, as it requires less energy and effort to look at a screen after a long day. However, Bradbury shows what impact this can have when we observe Mildred. She is completely absorbed and lost in another world. She cares deeply about something that is virtual than her own husband, and this shows how with the loss of books and knowledge, people’s sense to emotions and being able to read people also decreases. Mildred is oblivious to the world around her and when she invites some friends over, they talk about things in a way that shows how unaware they are. 
    F451 also shows similar traits in today’s society as we see how the decline in books and modernisation in technology does affect the way people converse and spend their time. However, our society is not the one depicted in the novel but Bradbury shows what could happen if we continue down the same line. 
    Bradbury was able to convey through hidden messages in the novel that there are people like Clarisse that try and see the world, as it should be seen; full of life, but if nothing is done to change the society then people like Clarisse are forced to disappear as they are making people question the things that are wrong. 
    There are many similarities in F451 to today, and the fact that Bradbury was able to foresee this years before any of it happened fascinates me. 
    ]]>     2017-03-19 05:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160967078     Michelle - Appeal https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160967424 - The thing that strikes me the most is Mildred's first appearance in the story. The author compares the bedroom in which she is in as a tomb, and her, as a corpse, giving the scene a cold and dark atmosphere. It makes me reflect on how a person can be so alike to a corpse when she is drowned in an unreal world created by technologies.
    - Another part of the story that grabs me is when Montag escaped from the city and saw the campfire lit by Granger and his friends. The author uses the sentence "It was not burning; it was warming." to describe Montag's surprise and amazement. This makes me recall the times of camp, when we sit by the campfire. Back at home, fire to me is only used for cooking, and at school, it only appears in bunsen burners during a science experiment. Either way, it had always symbolised heat and sometimes destruction, when I accidentally burn something I was not meant to burn. At camp, however, the fire is a source of warmth, a source of energy, which symbolises life, the opposite of destruction. The author's diction accurately describes my feelings towards fire. ]]>     2017-03-19 05:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160967424     Annie- What grabs me https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160979975
  • passages in which he rapid fires words at the reader
  • quick way of converging intense emotion
  • pg 15 “Clarrisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, tablets, tissue, blow, wad, flush, one, two, three…” Shows how Montag is intensely overwhelmed 
  • pg 52 “Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Flick, Here, There…Digest-digests. Politics?” Communicated the rapid development (or downfall) to a de-intellectualised world.
  • Forcefully engages the ready, puts me in this whirlwind or overwhelming words
  • Like I’m about to be engulfed by a swarm of bees (like the picture below but less calmed more panicked)
  • Uses short, sharp words and many of them. Each one individually has little mean but together as a group they form a feeling/concept/idea which conveys to the reader faster than if he’d tried to eloquently explain to the reader.


    • ]]>     2017-03-19 10:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/160979975     MS DAVEY- WHAT GRABS ME abby_davey https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/161043857 Baptisms- by water and by fire. One is passive (water) and yet profoundly life changing and the other is PASSIONATE, and can be equally as profound. For Montag his baptism by fire becomes violent, yet violence is still a form of passion.  Beatty's baptism by fire transitions him as it is his ultimate death- you know what they say- live by the sword, die by the sword ( or in this case fire). 

    Montag jumps into the river to save his life and baptism is seen as an acceptance of the Christian saviour. Montag doesn't know it, but he has cleansed himself of the impurities of the city behind him and as we see at a later stage, the city is burned and he is thus saved by his choice to jump into the river. His rebirth is categorised by knowledge as he sees fire in a completely new light as it was 'warming' and not 'burning.' This symbolic shift heralds the character's shift and this device draws me in as a reader because the ending becomes as complex as the beginning- his initial thought 'it was a pleasure to burn,' has come full circle, and yet it means something completely different to him now. Bradbury's exploration of our facets and our humanity captures my imagination every time I read this book. ]]>     2017-03-20 00:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/juj5uhxmoman/wish/161043857