Fahrenheit 451

Part 1: The following people, events, literature are mentioned or alluded to in Fahrenheit 451. Students are to be divided into 5 groups and each group is to find information on the author/book. Explain why you think this particular author or work was included in F. 451
1. Dante Alighieri:	The Divine Comedy (1265-1321)
2. Aristophanes	Greek playwright of satirical comedies (448-388)
3. Marcus Aurelius	Meditations (A.D. 121-180)
4. William Blake	Tyger! Tyger!
5. Gautama Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama, Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism (B.C. 563-483)
6. Book of Job	Bible (A man’s faith is tested by a series of tragic events.)
7. Lord Byron	George Gordon Byron, British Romantic poet (1788-1824)
8. Confucius	Chinese philosopher whose writings are the basis of Confucianism (c. 551- 479 B.C.)
9. Charles Darwin	Theory of evolution by natural selection (1802-1882)
10. Ecclesiastes	Bible (…for everything there is a season)
11. Guy Fawkes	Plotted to blow up the English Parliament (1605)
12. Ben Franklein	American patriot, inventor
13. Mahatma Gandi	Indian spiritual leader w/nonviolent resistance (1869-1948)
14. Thomas Hardy	British novelist and poet (1840-1928)
15. Thomas Jefferson	Author of the Declaration of Independence (1743-1826)
16. King John	Magna Carta (1215)
17. Latimer & Ridley	“Play the man, Master Ridley…” last words of Hugh Latimer to Nicolas Ridley. They were twoProtestants burned at the stake in Oxford (1555)
18. Niccolo Machiavelli	Italian Renaissance political theorist (1469-1527)
19. Herman Melville	Moby Dick (1819-1991)
20. Ortega y Gasset	Spanish philosopher (1883-1955)
21. Thomas Paine	British-born American patriot who wrote Common Sense (1776)
22. Thomas Love Peacock	British writer of satirical novels (1785-1866)
23. Plato	Plato’s Republic Utopia (B.C. 427—374)
24. Bertrand Russell	British philosopher, mathematician, social critic(1872-1970)
25. Arthur Schopenhauer	German philosopher (1780-1860)
26. Albert Schweitzer	French philosopher, physician, missionary (1875-1965)
27. William Shakespeare	Hamlet , Julius Caesar
28. Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom’s Cabin
29. Jonathan Swift	Gulliver’s Travels (1667-1745)
30. Henry David Thoreau	Author of Civil Disobedience and Walden (1817-1862)
Want the answers? Part 2: Here are many of the quotes the Captain Beatty quotes or paraphrases. Find (a) who said it and (b) if possible the source (c) choose three quotes and explain why they are included in this novel. All we like sheep have gone astray. Who are a little wise / The best fools be. Truth is truth To the end of reckoning They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. He is not wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long. He doth nothing but talk of his horse. The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a thread bare saint in wisdom’s school The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. Knowledge is power. …a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. .. The folly of mistaking…a metaphor for proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. A kind Of excellent dumb discourse