Applied Modernism Essay

       The Great War, also known as World War I ravaged Europe through 1914 and 1918. This war was looked upon with horror and it left society wondering what the world would be in the future. This is a way of thinking that came to be call Modernism. Authors who adopted the modern point of view wrote deliberately and self-consciously. Therefore Modernism is with the inner self and consciousness. The novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury is consider a modernism novel because it predicts the future.
     
      This novel takes place in the future and it states that books are banned. Montag  the main character lives in a world that is control by the government. Books are banned and firefighters start fire instead of putting them out. Also the country is in the middle of a war. This novel's main theme is censorship.

       This novel predicts the future. People, like Mildred, Montag's wife spent most their time watching parlor television and listening to seashells like earphones that we have today. These people are almost all ignorant. Those who act out or rebel against the law are arrested and punished. For example, if an individual is found with books than they are arrested and their property is burned to the ground. Individuals who think outside the box and think how the world is are considered crazy. For example, Clarisse McClellan considers the world around her and for that she is an outcast of society.

        In conclusion, Fahrenheit 451 is a modernism novel. It predicts the future and expresses destruction and decay. I expresses the main characters thought process or syntax. People break rules in society, there is mistrust, and brokenness with the government. Th is are evidence that makes it a modernism novel.