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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

《华氏451》主人公盖伊·蒙泰戈是一名消防队员，不过他的工作是焚烧违禁书籍。他已经当了十年的消防队员，并且从来没有过自己所从事工作的乐趣：在午夜奔跑，看着书一页一页地烧成灰烬......这一切都是快乐的，他从未曾过，直到有一天，他遇到了一个17岁的女孩，通过女孩，他又认识了其他人，他们都有惊人的记忆力，看完就把书烧掉，然后把内容记在心里。他们“跟普通人没什么两样，像是跑完了一段长路，经过漫长的寻觅，见过美好的事物被焚毁，如今已垂垂老矣，聚在一起等待曲终人散，灯干油尽。他们并不肯定自己脑中所记载的一切，能使未来每一个日出发出更纯净的光辉，