Fahrenheit 451: The Irony of “The Hearth and the Salamander”
The title ‘The Hearth and the Salamander’ is purposely ironic. Montag’s home life is ironic to the title. Montag and Mildred do not really know each other. Montag and Mildred have trouble communicating. Webster’s Dictionary says that a hearth means “the fireside, family life, or home.” Hearth usually implies warmth. When Montag goes into his house for the first time he describes it like “coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum.” His house should have been happy, not like going into a cold, deserted tomb. Montag’s home life definitely took a plunge when his wife tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. When Montag came home he kicked the “small crystal bottle of sleeping tablet which earlier {that day} had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty” on the bedr
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Approximate Word count = 550
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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