Applied Modernism

Fahrenheit 451 is a modernist work because...? For many reasons! Modern or modernism doesn't necessarily mean at this moment, right now. Modernism doesn't really mean modern at all if you look at it a certain way. My opinion, Fahrenheit 451 definitely is modernist work. Many many times in this novel Mr. Bradbury talks about the future. What the future will hold, what technological ideas will surface, everything about the future without us even noticing. Modernism is going outside of the box. Kind of like transcendentalism. This is definitely what Bradbury did. Not only did his writing go outside the norm with his ideas and creations, but also the character Guy Montag did as well. He kept books in secret, which was especially out of the normal because he was a fireman who burnt houses down that possessed them. Throughout this novel, there are many examples of modernism, finding them on your own is the challenge.