TEACHER RESOURCES: FAHRENHEIT 451

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Written by: Ray Bradbury

Type of Work: novel

Genre: social commentary; science fiction

Main Characters: Guy Montag; Captain Beatty; Clarisse McClellan

First Published: 1953

Setting: dystopia; twenty-fourth century; American

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In Fahrenheit 451, why would a society make being a pedestrian a crime?

"Society" in Fahrenheit 451 controls the people through media, overpopulation, and censorship. The individual is not accepted, and the intellectual is considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common perception of . . . More