| 1 | [[WMG: The book takes place in an AlternateUniverse just prior to the invention of the internet... making it a prequel to the ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' series.]] |
| 2 | TV takes over the world, reading is illegal, human life is devalued as high-stakes entertainment becomes the norm. The implied World War III at the end of the book sets the stage for the deteriorating conditions in the television show. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | [[WMG: The movie is a prequel to Film/TheInventionOfLying.]] |
| 5 | With the libraries gone, in particular all fiction, people start having a maniacal respect for basic facts. Truth was whatever was immediately seen, heard, or sensed, anything else was suspect. Books might be allowed back, in particular after the destruction of WWIII, but ''only'' as a means of storing facts. (The low-tech nature of a book would make it more accessible than the more-difficult-to-repair computer.) People had no desire how to imagine and, once the cities were rebuilt, had forgotten how. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[WMG: Clarisse was "killed in a traffic accident"]] |
| 8 | Knowing the type of government in this book, and knowing what [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea a similarly governed country uses that term for]] ([[spoiler:shooting]]), perhaps the government intentionally rubbed out Clarisse for being too much of a free thinker. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[WMG: This book was a major reason for suburban sprawl in RealLife.]] |
| 11 | The cities in the book were compact entities. The book ends with WorldWarIII and an ApocalypseHow. |
| 12 |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext WMG / Fahrenheit451
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load
