The war. It began and ended in a few seconds. The war was the death for thousands all over the world, and while Montag describes the last few seconds of Mildred's life, he may as well have been describing the death of almost all of the inhabitants of their city. Mildred and Montag had an interesting...

The United States in the twenty-fourth century has become a totally urbanized, anti-intellectual society. People live mainly for two forms of pleasure: breakneck driving and endless television watching on wall-size interactive screens. The greatest threat is solitary thought; the most dangerous we...