this is from Fahrenheit 451......its supposed 2 b about a passage that exibits good symbolism...Ill take ant suggestions or commetns you may have!!
2007-03-10
08:48:44
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“Montag said nothing but stood looking at the women’s faces as he had once looked at the faces of saints in a strange church he had entered when he was a child. The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in that church for a long time, trying to be of that religion, trying to know what the religion was, trying to get enough of the raw incense and special dust of the place into his lungs and thus into his blood to feel touched and concerned by the meaning of the colorful men and women with the porcelain eyes and blood-ruby lips. But there was nothing, nothing…” (95).
2007-03-10
08:49:20 ·
update #1
In this passage Montag relates being with his wife and the other women to a past childhood experience in a church. The church is symbolic of Montag’s world, he couldn’t fit in at the church and he doesn’t fit in now in society, even at his own home. The saints are symbolic of Montag’s wife and her friends. In the church no matter what Montag tried, he couldn’t get himself to understand and accept the religion and ideas. That is similar to Montag’s current problem. Montag tries to fit in but no matter what he tries, he can’t seem to get himself to successfully act as the other people in society do. He thinks differently than everyone else.
2007-03-10
08:49:40 ·
update #2
The saints in the church felt religion was a way of life and was very important. When Montag was a child, he didn’t see what was so important about religion. Once again, this is very similar to his current problem. Mildred and her friends rely on technology and most likely could not live if it was ever taken away from them. Montag however, doesn’t see how technology can necessarily help you and has no need deep for it whatsoever.
2007-03-10
08:49:48 ·
update #3