Blood
Blood represents life, passion, lineage (relatives), horror, slaughter, and anger.
"The bloodstream in this woman was new and it seemed to have done a new thing for her.... Someone else's blood there." p. 16. It describing how Mildred was changed with someone else's life in her. It gave her a new chance. "sometimes with second chances, we take them for granted, like Mildred. Other times, we learn something, like Montag."
"The bloodstream in this woman was new and it seemed to have done a new thing for her.... Someone else's blood there." p. 16. It describing how Mildred was changed with someone else's life in her. It gave her a new chance. "sometimes with second chances, we take them for granted, like Mildred. Other times, we learn something, like Montag."
Fire
In this book the hearth and the salamander represents fire. the hearthe is a simple symbol of a fireplace that give warmth from a fire. The salamander represents fire because there is an old tale that salamanders live in fire and that they are unaffected by flames from fire. Fire also represents the destroying of knowledge because of the burning of books that give people knowledge and wisdom. On the otherhand it represents the bringing of new life.
Hearth and Salamander
Heath is the symbol of home and fire, while the salamander represents the fireman.
"'The salamander devours his tail.'" p. 86. Faber is describing how the firemen will destroy themselves if books are found in the Houses, their heath. They can not stand if they don't have a home base.
"'The salamander devours his tail.'" p. 86. Faber is describing how the firemen will destroy themselves if books are found in the Houses, their heath. They can not stand if they don't have a home base.
Sieve and Sand
the sieve and the sand is in representation of a childhood memory montag has of when he was at the beach and he was trying to fill a sieve with sand to get money from one or his decieving relatives. He relates it to the time when he tries to read the bible as fast as he could so that he could remember it for faber. The sieve is a symol the knowledge Montag seeks. And the sand is the fulfillment of his apprehension.
Phoenix
Phoenix is the bird that burns itself up and rises from the ashes. After the city is bombed and reduced to ashes, Granger compared mankind to Phoenix. Both the Phoenix and mankind burn themself up in fire. Phoenix represents renewal for the life that follows death. The firemen wear the Phoenix on their uniforms, and the Captain drives a Phoenix car. The Phoenix also refers to Montag's spiritual resurrection. P.163 Granger says, "There was a silly bird called a Phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself, up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one thing the Phoenix never had. We know the silly thing we just did. We know all the silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation."
Mirrors
