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What "Carried the Trick"? Mass exploitation and the decline of thought in Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451.'
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What "Carried the Trick"? Mass exploitation and the decline of thought in Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451.' * There is an interesting dichotomy in Ray Bradbury's 1953 Fahrenheit 451, a noticeable gap between the message that the author and we the readers receive from the novel and the message that the text actually seems to support. While I realize that some see little use for such old-fashioned attention to the text itself, Fahrenheit 451 is such an overtly didactic work that it almost invites such examination. Surely even the staunchest reader-response critic would agree that Bradbury is trying to sell the readers on ideas that he has put into his story. Yet there is a discrepancy between the ideas the author is selling--and readers are buying--and the ideas he has let the whole rest of the text support. I suggest this not necessarily to label it as a weakness but to show...
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