Sophocles

Quote from Book: "'What? Men quoting Milton? Saying, I remember Sophocles? Reminding the survivors that man has his good side, too? They will only gather up their stones to  hurl at each other. Montag, go home. Go to bed. Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?'" it can also be tied into a central theme of getting books back.

Connections to Sophocles: Sophocles is mentioned by name. Also the book has an underlying theme in similar to his play __Antigone.__ This can be seen with the fact that both the title ccharacter of __Antigone,__ Antigone, and of __Fahrenheit 451,__ Montag, both go against authoritie and the law. Antigone goes against the king of thebes and buries her brother while montag goes against the goverment by reading books and trying to get them back in use.

Background Information: The play antigone is about the daughter of Oedipus and how she goes agianst the king of thebes by giving her traitorus brother a proper funeral. This play was done Sophocles.