Significance Of Fire In Fahrenheit 451

At the beginning of the novel, Montag considers it a pleasure to burn due to the power it gave him. For Montag, burning was the only thing he knew, and to him the only way of life. Getting to be apart of the wonderful experience of helping your government made Montag feel important, being able to help out. It also let him have control over the fire, which all means for him burning is a good thing.
Faber means by this quote that the book is just a body that holds the real jewel of learning. The actual book is just something to display the information on, but what really matters it the actual content. In the story, this shows to be true since at the end, all of the men memorized the stories and the meanings behind them.
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The major theme of the novel, being individuality goes along with the use of the symbol fire. Fire is a huge part of the novel, and acts as many different things throughout the story, and changes as it goes along. Individuality acting as the main theme in this novel, is emphasized by the use of the symbol fire, and acts as a very important piece to the novel.

One reason the symbolism of fire fits into the theme individuality is the use of censorship throughout the novel. The government uses fire as a censorship to people being individual and having a creative thought process. The government uses fire to burn books, and bans them from all people. Books have critical knowledge in them, and drive society as a whole to become better. Without learning materials, people wouldn’t be able to express themselves as freely as they choose. The government actually forces people to have a certain mindset by using fire as a censorship to all creativity. The novel states on page 38, “The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry. The men danced and slipped and fell over them. Titles glittered their golden eyes, falling, gone. “Kerosene!” They pumped the cold fluid from the numeraled 451 tanks strapped to their shoulders. They coated each book, they pumped rooms full of it.” This shows that books are a thing of wonder and importance, and the fire is something to dull the shine, and take

Fire gets a new meaning that helps support the idea of people being independent, and not fitting to the government's cookie cutter mold. The fire’s new meaning is rebellion and life. When the city is bombed and it all crumbles, fire is calming and sweet. Page 145 states, “The fire was gone, then back again, like a winking eye. He stopped, afraid he might blow the fire out with a single breath. But the fire was there and he approached warily, from a long way off. It took the better part of fifteen minutes before he drew very close indeed to it, and then he stood looking at it from cover. That small motion, the white and red color, a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him. It was not burning, it was warming.” The fire shows change in the world, and how good things can come from bad. Since the government has fell, and they were the ones controlling who can be what, all individuality is restored, and people are free to be who they so choose. Fire was once something to be fearful of, or something taking away people’s special qualities, is now something people can use to be inspired and reach for something more than what the government says they need to