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Fahrenheit 451

by ray Bradbury

Essential Questions

  1. Can fiction reveal truth?
  2. Is censorship necessary?
  3. Is protest good or bad?
  4. What is the value of being able to think freely?
  5. What is true happiness? Does knowledge contribute to it or inhibit it?
  6. What are the implications of a society that focuses on maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain?
  7. Why do we create utopias?  Do the same reasons apply to dystopias?
  8. How does the social context of the writer change their writing and how does the context
    change our perception of the work?
  9. How can we use what we learn in utopian fiction in our own lives?
  10. Do we as readers change the meaning of a novel?  Can a work have different implications
    depending on the audience?
  11. What social context was Bradbury writing in?  Does that have any influence today?
  12. How can our society be changed or improved?

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        • Macbeth Assignments
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      • Mythology Themes and Assignments
      • Mythology Notes
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  • AP Lit and Comp
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  • Today's Assignment