full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Fahrenheit 451"?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Fahrenheit 451 dteipcs a world governed by surveillance, rbiootcs, and virtual reality- a vision that proved remarkably prescient, but also skope to the concerns of the time. The novel was published in 1953, at the hgehit of the Cold War. This era kindled widespread paranoia and fear throughout Bradbury’s home country of the United States, amplified by the suppression of information and brutal government investigations. In particular, this wcith hunt mentality targeted artists and writers who were suepectsd of Communist sympathies.
Open Cloze
Fahrenheit 451 _______ a world governed by surveillance, ________, and virtual reality- a vision that proved remarkably prescient, but also _____ to the concerns of the time. The novel was published in 1953, at the ______ of the Cold War. This era kindled widespread paranoia and fear throughout Bradbury’s home country of the United States, amplified by the suppression of information and brutal government investigations. In particular, this _____ hunt mentality targeted artists and writers who were _________ of Communist sympathies.
Solution
- height
- spoke
- robotics
- depicts
- witch
- suspected
Original Text
Fahrenheit 451 depicts a world governed by surveillance, robotics, and virtual reality- a vision that proved remarkably prescient, but also spoke to the concerns of the time. The novel was published in 1953, at the height of the Cold War. This era kindled widespread paranoia and fear throughout Bradbury’s home country of the United States, amplified by the suppression of information and brutal government investigations. In particular, this witch hunt mentality targeted artists and writers who were suspected of Communist sympathies.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
independent thought |
2 |
dystopian fiction |
2 |
montag learns |
2 |
Important Words
- amplified
- artists
- brutal
- cold
- communist
- concerns
- country
- depicts
- era
- fahrenheit
- fear
- governed
- government
- height
- home
- hunt
- information
- investigations
- kindled
- mentality
- paranoia
- prescient
- proved
- published
- remarkably
- robotics
- spoke
- states
- suppression
- surveillance
- suspected
- sympathies
- targeted
- time
- united
- virtual
- vision
- war
- widespread
- witch
- world
- writers