Fahrenheit 451 - Irony

Fahrenheit 451 was a very ironic book. With tons and tons of examples all over the place, I really do not even need to explain the but I will anyway because school starts tomorrow and I still need to blog a few more times. Alright there are so many examples of irony in this book I really do not know where to start. I guess I will start with the most obvious one. That being the fact that firemen, who when we think of them are people bravely running in to burning buildings heroically saving young children and dogs alike. Now the ironic part of this story is that in the book Firemen are people who start fires. Rather than being courageous and heroic they are cowardly and agents of terror, always keeping people scared for their lives. They are the exact opposite of what we might expect a fireman to be. This is the very first little piece of irony that I personally noticed during the book. The second irony is how people have seemingly regressed backwards as far as a morality is concerned. I know whenever I think of the future I think of people smarter than me, better morally and really cool technology. In this book though people have become more and more jaded towards other people. Rather than being more humane, more perfect than those that cam before them they are less of a utopia society. That may really be the ultimate irony in this story. the fact that the one thing we believe in, progress, humans becoming better and better may not always be true. This book really uses ironies very effectively, making you think about certain things and making you think about possibilities. There quite a few other ironies in this book. I will have to cover them in my next blog as I am quickly running close tot he 325 mark for words wait for my next blog.