Imagery And Symbolism In 'Fahrenheit 451'

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There is another symbol in addition to the salamander mentioned earlier: the phoenix. In mythology, the phoenix was a bird of fire that would die, and rise from its own ashes. Fire is used in Fahrenheit 451 to represent both death and rebirth. Though books, and thus the intellectual state of society, are killed, society also burns down in the end starting a rebirth of a new one.

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