What “Carried the Trick”? Mass Exploitation and the Decline of Thought in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

Promethean Rebellion in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451": The Protagonist's Quest

“…Academic research has used this metaphor to discuss different aspects of the novel, such as its connection with Cold War narrative (Hoskinson 1995), mass exploitation (McGiveron 1996(McGiveron , 1998, the relationship between utopia/dystopia and the psychoanalytic concept of "reverie" (Touponce 1984), or social criticism in general, as referred above. A metaphor is a symbolic device, a literary trope, which implies that "everything is potentially identical with everything else" (Frye 1990: 136).…”

Subject and State: Ideology, State Apparatuses and Interpellation in "Fahrenheit 451"

“…Fahrenheit 451 which is one of the most popular fictions of the American literary canon has received considerable scholarly attention. The studies vary in their viewpoints: some of them are explorations of its basic themes and subjects such as conformism (Amis 2000), dictatorship (Gottlieb 2001), totalitarianism (Myers-Dickison 1999), resistance (Ronnov-Jessen 1984), rebellion (Feneja 2012), censorship (Guffey 1985), war (Hoskinson 2001), nature/wilderness (Laino 2007;McGiveron 1997), self-examination (Mcgiveron 1998), mass exploitation (McGiveron 1996), technology (Mengeling 1980), consumerism (Seed 1994), mass degradation (Zipes 2008) and exile (Wood 2008). Some of the studies focus on the literary or stylistic elements of the novel examining allegories (Conner 2008), imagery (Pell 1980), allusions (Sisario 1970) or symbols (Watt 1980); while some others work on its generic quality comparing the novel to utopia (Huntigton 1982), putropia (Williams 1988), satire (Mogen 1986) or romance (Kagle 2008).…”