Name: __________________________________
American Literature and Composition Honors
Fahrenheit 451 – Theme
Directions: Working together as a group, consider the following thematic questions
associated with your assigned character. Record the group’s responses in the spaces
provided in each text box.
Clarisse: value of
authentic human
interaction
1. Explain the irony in Clarisse’s school
labeling her as “antisocial.”
2. Provide a quote from the text which
best illustrates this particular theme.
Please include the page number.
3. Identify another piece of literature that shares the commonality of
your assigned theme. Briefly explain the connection between the
two pieces of literature.
Name: __________________________________
American Literature and Composition Honors
Fahrenheit 451 – Theme
Directions: Working together as a group, consider the following thematic questions
associated with your assigned character. Record the group’s responses in the spaces
provided in each text box.
Millie: apathy
and passivity
1. After working on Millie, the machine
operator tells Montag that “we get these
cases nine or ten a night.”
2. Provide a quote from the text which
best illustrates this particular theme.
Please include the page number.
3. Identify another piece of literature that shares the commonality of
your assigned theme. Briefly explain the connection between the
two pieces of literature.
Name: __________________________________
American Literature and Composition Honors
Fahrenheit 451 – Theme
Directions: Working together as a group, consider the following thematic questions
associated with your assigned character. Record the group’s responses in the spaces
provided in each text box.
Beatty: ignorance
versus
knowledge
1. How can the reader reconcile the fact
that Beatty quotes more literature than
any other character in the book, and yet
is the most prominent figure fighting the
study of such literature?
2. Provide a quote from the text which
best illustrates this particular theme.
Please include the page number.
3. Identify another piece of literature that shares the commonality of
your assigned theme. Briefly explain the connection between the
two pieces of literature.
Name: __________________________________
American Literature and Composition Honors
Fahrenheit 451 – Theme
Directions: Working together as a group, consider the following thematic questions
associated with your assigned character. Record the group’s responses in the spaces
provided in each text box.
Faber: education
that values
books
1. “Don’t ask to be saved in any one
thing, person, machine, or library,”
Faber tells Montag. “Do your own bit of
saving, and if you drown, at least die
knowing you were headed for shore.”
How good is this advice?
2. Provide a quote from the text which
best illustrates this particular theme.
Please include the page number.
3. Identify another piece of literature that shares the commonality of
your assigned theme. Briefly explain the connection between the
two pieces of literature.
Name: __________________________________
American Literature and Composition Honors
Fahrenheit 451 – Theme
Directions: Working together as a group, consider the following thematic questions
associated with your assigned character. Record the group’s responses in the spaces
provided in each text box.
Montag:
alienation and
loneliness
1. Montag turns to books to rescue him;
instead, they help to demolish his life. He
loses his wife, job, and home; he kills a man,
and is forced to be a nomad. Explain then
how books become Montag’s antidote to
alienation.
2. Provide a quote from the text which
best illustrates this particular theme.
Please include the page number.
3. Identify another piece of literature that shares the commonality of
your assigned theme. Briefly explain the connection between the
two pieces of literature.
Name: __________________________________
American Literature and Composition Honors
Fahrenheit 451 – Theme
Directions: Working together as a group, consider the following thematic questions
associated with your assigned character. Record the group’s responses in the spaces
provided in each text box.
Montag: paradox
between life and
death
1. Death saturates the novel: the old woman
burns herself to death, Clarisse is killed by a
speeding car, Montag kills Beatty with the
flamethrower, and the Mechanical Hound kills
an innocent man. Among all this destruction,
however, Montag is given new life. What then,
is Bradbury suggesting life is dependent on?
Why?
2. Provide a quote from the text which
best illustrates this particular theme.
Please include the page number.
3. Identify another piece of literature that shares the commonality of
your assigned theme. Briefly explain the connection between the
two pieces of literature.
Name: __________________________________
American Literature and Composition Honors
Fahrenheit 451 – Themes
Clarisse: value
of authentic
human
interaction
interaction
Montag: paradox
between life and
death
Millie: apathy and
passivity
THEMES
Montag:
alienation and
loneliness
Faber: education
that values books
Beatty: ignorance
versus knowledge