Fahrenheit 451 Hero's Journey

The hero’s journey is perhaps one of the most archaic, most easily understood, and yet, most complex tales in all of human existence. It has been recounted in indeterminate ways such as when the hero saves the princess in the classic saga, Star Wars, to the hero learning nothing more than a simple moral lesson that is meant to be directed towards the reader like in the Wizard of Oz. It is also infused into literature with the hero defeating crippling ailments and managing to restore the courage she once had like in Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr. The original status quo was that the hero’s journey was an extremely loose and versatile literary plot. However, as more stories came out with increasingly resemblant storylines regarding heroes and their journeys, this would no longer be the case.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a story about a fireman escaping a totalitarian society, essentially crafts Campbell’s established hero’s journey into near perfection. The decade-old classic makes a clear effort to equally induce the reader with nostalgia by retaining common tropes of the