University of Puerto Rico

Rio Piedras Campus

College of Education
Secondary School
Kevin N. Ortiz 2016-040

October 9, 2014

The Nature of Fear in Fahrenheit 451

Introduction
1. Fear can mean many different things. IT is personal
2. However, fear is part of human nature. We all personally
experience it in our lives.
3. Societies also experience fear (collectives)
4.
point 1-roosevelt

1. On March four, nineteen thirty three, Franklin Roosevelt

swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of
the United States. He had been elected president in a
landslide victory over the Republican contender and then
president Herbert Hoover.
2. Roosevelts success can be attributed, at least in great
part, to the Great Depression. His ENEMY was consistently,
and many times inaccurately, blamed by the populace for the
current economic situation of the nation. A change in
president was seen as an effective way to begin economic
PICKINGUPTHEPIECES. Roosevelt used this to his advantage in
his presidential campaign, and in this way guaranteed his
election.
3. On his inauguration speech, Roosevelt assured the people of
the United States that he would do his best to aid the
countrys financial woes. He compared, in his ghostwritten
speech, the management of the Great Depression to the
management of a war, and the fiscal crisis to an invading
foreign foe. IN ESSENCE, Roosevelt, according to his speech,
felt confident about what he was facing and looked it in the
eye. He recognized that fear was not a reaction to the
Depression that would SOLVE ANYTHING.
4. It is worth noting that Roosevelts speech was not written
by him, but by his close aide Raymond Moley, who wrote most
of his oratory.
Point 2
1. Moley emphasized this standpoint by stating that the only
thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless,
unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed
efforts to convert retreat into advance.

University of Puerto Rico

Rio Piedras Campus
College of Education
Secondary School
Kevin N. Ortiz 2016-040

October 9, 2014

2. To Moley, fear is the enemy of progress, because it

3.