When Ray Bradbury wrote ,"It was a pleasure to burn" What is the meaning and significance? What themes developed from it, how did those ideas develop and how is this theme important to the novel?
Fire is an important theme in the novel. The pleasure of making things burn was a common feeling among the firefighters. Their job was not to put fires out.... it was to burn books, the homes of people who owned books, and sometimes to even burn the book's owners as well. The pleasure came from the act of doing thir job, and the power it afforded them.
IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.
Fahrenheit 451
