Hallo Liebe wer weiss was Mitglieder
Um mich ideal auf die mündliche Prüfung vorzubereiten, habe ich versucht ein paar Fragen zu beantworten.
- Da mein Englisch nicht sehr gut ist, wäre ich froh wenn ihre Verbesserungen anbringen könntet.
- Zudem hatte ich teilweise Schwierigkeiten die Fragen zu beanworten
- Ich weiss es ist wohl etwas viel verlangt, aber im weiteren wäre ich sehr dankbar, wenn ihr mit den Antworthorizont auf die Fragen noch etwas erweitern könntet.
- Discuss the gradual development of Montag throughout the plot. Compare and contrast him to Beatty.
Montag’s development: At first he is persuade firemen, which task is to burn books and in the end he is a strict opponent of this system.
In the course of the story Montag’s becomes stronger and so he is able to change he’s life.
For this change he needs several persons:
- Through his friendship with Clarisse McClellan, Montag comes to realize that he is not in love with his wife and that he is, in fact, disgusted
- Mildred attempted suicid, Montag realized that they are not at all close
- Montag is unable to forget the image of the old woman, and wonders what in books could possibly inspire so much passion.
- His hunger for humanistic knowledge brings him to Professor Faber, the one educated person that he can trust to reach him.
- Unable to contain his contempt any longer, Montag kills Chief Beatty and sets out to see Faber, his mentor, before fleeing police and certain death by floating down river.
- Montag’s old life is destroyed and he is re-born when he emerges from the river to begin anew
- Talking with Granger and the others around the fire, Montag gains a sense of warmth and personal well-being recover a sense of faith in the future
Contrary to Monday he doesn’t make a personal development, he is and stay the leader of the to the totalitarian system until his death
Was könnte man hier noch erwöhnen?
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Make a list of the people in the novel who contribute to Montag’s growing self-awareness and explain what they teach him.
Clarisse: She teaches Montag, that the actual task from firemen is to put out fire and not to set fire she also confront him with the question if he is happy
Old woman: He doesn’t teach Montag directly, despite she has an influence on him, because she evoke his interest in books, because he wants to know why a person prefer to die as to destroy their books.
Faber: He teaches Montag to understand books and he explains him that books represent people’s thoughts and views
Granger: He teaches him that fire it isn’t only here to destroy things, but fire can also give a warm feeling. -
Explain the relationship of the title of the book to its meaning.
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns. -
Explain some of the futuristic (fantastic) technological advances seen in the novel.
Mechanical Hound
Can be programmed to detect people by following their smell, injects morphine. The hound represents
government control and manipulation of technology
Television walls and seashell radios
This gadget allow the people a constant escape from reality.
Leider finde ich die Textstelle nicht mehr, aber es wurde doch ein Gerät eingesetzt als Mildred einen Selbstmordversuch unternahm -
Describe Mildred and contrast her to Montag and Clarisse.
She fits into the system very well, is only interested in money and material possession and represents shallowness and mediocrity
She is totally immersed in a dream electronic world. He has no interesting for Montag and other people, her family is the TV wall.
Mildred Clarisse
To one extreme you have Clarisse, who is a free thinker, which in this society, will lead to her demise. She is also young and innocent. On the opposite extreme you have Mildred, who is addicted to the empty, vicarious existence offered by the shallow popular culture pumped in through the TV walls.
Mildred is the classic example of an ordinary citizen in contrast Clarisse refuses the entertainment that society offers and prefers to enjoy the outdoors and conversations with her family and she also represents humanism and the integrity.
Mildred Montag
In between the two extremes is Montag.
During Mildred accepts the situation, Monday opposes to the system.
Monday pursues a goal, during that Mildred lives without thinking -
What does the old lady represent to Montag and how does she affect him?
She represents to Montag the important of books, because she can’t live without books. Montag is unable to forget the image of the old woman, and wonders what in books could possibly inspire so much passion. -
Is Beatty hypocritical? Fully explain your answer.
Momentan tu ich mich mit dieser Frage sehr schwer, kann mir jemand einen Ansatz dazu geben? -
What do you consider to be the most important theme of the novel? Why? How is it developed?
In my opinion the main theme in the novel is the emptiness of modern mass culture
People are kept from thinking by the prohibition of books and stupid TV programmes. Nobody is interested in problems of others and can expect that others understand his problems. Interhuman relations does not exist
Bradbury also share this opinion with me, the he warns of the consequences of excessive consumption and superficial entertainment. And of the loss of human proximity) and genuine feelings (echten Gefühlen) and refers to the dangers of cultural flattening by materialistic thinking and acting -
Explain the images of death, suicide, and murder in the novel. What are their relationships to the totalitarian society?
Death, suicide, and murder appears to have become something completenormal and daily. The people come and go…
In this society a human life seems to be nearly worthless. The people seem to have to over-drive fun humans.
Die zweite Frage kannich momentan nicht beantworten: What are their relationships to the totalitarian society? Kann mir jemand helfen?
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