| A | B |
| fire | instant cure for wrongdoings |
| Book of Revelation | Healing of the nations; growth and rebirth |
| book burning | lost freedoms; suppression of free thought |
| parlor walls | life-control |
| river | renewal, purification, baptism |
| phoenix | hope in destruction |
| salamander | resistance to fire |
| mechanical hound | computerized law enforcement |
| mirrors | need to reflect/ self-reflection |
| fire | cleansing, oppression, awareness, destruction, transformation |
| phoenix | cyclical path of history; rebirth |
| python | temptation to disobey; firehose |
| books | enlightenment through reading |
| Clarisse | name means "brightest" |
| black cobra | suction snake to remove medicine from Mildred |
| Beatty | baits Montag |
| sieve | Montag's mind |
| white | pure and unspoiled by technology |
| mechanical hound | threat of government |
| seashell radios | mind control |
| water | rebirth and purification |
| mausoleum | death |
| Book of Ecclesiastes | a time for everything; cyclical path of history |