Blog #6- Farenheit 451 - Writer's Craft: Imagery

The images of animals are described few time in the novel. For example, Montag quotes "flapping piegon-winged books"(3), compares Mechanical Hound to dog and machine to save Millie as a snake. Bradbury seem to use these negative images of animals to depict the importance and power of nature. As the society concerns the development of technology, disregard nature, and manipulate the nature into a machine, they cause the presence of catastrophy and death in the society. For example, the mechanical hounds which is developed from idea of dogs, do nothing but kill and capture people. The city which is full of technological materials and no longer values nature, contains lives that are absolutely disaster (people are living under the control of parlor, kill each other with no specific reasons). However, the lives outside of the city is depicted so peaceful and calm in the novel. Thus, this gives an impression that nature is the peace way in life. I think Bradbury used the imagery of nature well to express the importance of nature and disaster that the high technology brings.