In one day everything you believe in could be a lie, everything you have, could just vanish. In the science fiction novel F451, Ray Bradbury creates a dystopian society in which everything seems to be perfect, but is actually falling apart. The main character, Guy Montag, gets his life turned upside down when he meets this seventeen year old girl named Clarisse who changes his whole perspective on life and books. Montag then begins to abandon the social norms and what is accepted in his society to try and grasp the old society that he believes is right. Ray Bradbury uses irony, flashback, and foreshadowing to develop his theme, censorship can prevent a society to move towards a bright future where people can voice their own opinions. Ray Bradbury uses irony to support his…show more content… Bradbury uses flashbacks as a way to show character development in Montag- the more he reads, thinks, the more he looks back and reflects on what he already knows, which proves the point that it is not the books themselves that are important, but the thinking that they result in. “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality… texture. This book has pores…feature. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more `literary' you are. The good writers touch life often.” (page 85). F451, by Ray Bradbury, focused on how the censorship of books can affect society and he develops that theme through irony, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. Irony is used to convey the unhappiness of the people within the society. His use of foreshadowing helps to emphasis the temptation that the prohibition of books creates. Bradbury used flashbacks in order to build character and plot
