Indledning
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows”1 The point of this quote is, it does not matter if two plus two is four; what matters is that you believe it.
The illusion of the ‘perfect’ society is portrayed in the short story, The pedestrian, written in 1951 by Ray Bradbury, which will be analysed and interpreted, while put into perspective to George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ from 1949.
The protagonist, Leonard Mead, is a man who’s considered different and dangerous for his time, being 2053.
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Uddrag
The style of writing is very descriptive and there are a lot of adjectives to describe Mead’s walk through the evening. In these lines (p.2 l.20-p.3 l.2)
he has a more positive outlook on the society, because he’s out on his daily walk, which he enjoys a lot, and is probably the only good thing left he can appreciate.
“There was a good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside”6 Here he compares the frost in the air with a christmas tree, which is something warm and friendly, and it also indicates a feeling of pure joy.
It’s also something that doesn’t belong in the society anymore. There’s also used a lot of long sentences;
“If he closed his eyes and stood very still, frozen, he could imagine himself upon the center of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles, and only dry river beds, the streets, for company.”7
This sentence seems more slow and explanatory, and it creates a more relaxing feeling, which relates to what Mead also feels when he’s walking outside.
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