'Censorship In Fahrenheit 451'

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, a controlling government has banned all books. The story follows Guy Montag, a firefighter who burns books in this dystopian world. He begins the story passionate about his job and the cause he serves. When he meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan, he begins to rethink the life he lives and realizes that books are not as destructive as the government wants him to believe. Without books showing different and conflicting ideas, the people in this community are brainwashed into believing in a single value and principle.

In Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, he creates a social commentary on human’s dependence on technology and how if humans allow themselves to be influenced by it, they could be manipulated easily, as the government in Fahrenheit 451 does. The government is able to manipulate its people through uses of censorship. The government in the story censors out any influence that gives people free thoughts and ideas to argue about and possibly realize how oppressive the government is. This influence happens to be books. The government censors out all books by using firemen. Though, these “firemen” in Fahrenheit 451 don’t prevent fires, but they instead start them, by using kerosine pumping hoses instead of water hoses. They use the kerosine to go around to where books are stashed and burn them. This burning of books results in technology such as televisions and tablets being the main source of information for the people, making it easy for the government to lie about the information given. One example of this in the book is towards the end when Montag is being pursued by the law after his acts against the government. During the chase, Montag escapes from the authorities through a river, but because the government did not want to show its people that they had failed, they show people on the television, images of a random man walking on the sidewalk who is pounced on by the mechanical hound and a voice claiming, “The search is over, Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged.”

Throughout the book, the main character Montag is a firefighter who burns the houses of those with books. He meets the character Clarisse, who ends up changing the way he feels about books. At the beginning of the novel, Montag comes across Clarisse who asks Montag if he has ever read a book. “Do you mind if I ask?

Censorship in Fahrenheit 451 The word “Dystopian” means “relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by the author Ray Bradbury. The novel is about a dystopian future, where there is strict government censorship among the country. The government has banned all types of literature from the hands of the public.

When Fahrenheit 451 was written it was warning American society about many different things one main thing it was warning us about is censorship. Fahrenheit 451 is a book based on how society tried to censor everything they did from having only specific TV programs to no books allowed, if you were to have a book then you were punished. Fahrenheit 451 can still be used today to help American society, it shows you the world with censorship and how it would be like with no books and how clueless people are without books.

The Social Damage of Censorship in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 It is the year 2053, and you are now 55 years old. Imagine that everything you read, and all of the knowledge you gained, through the English classes you went to as a student were for nothing. By 2053, there is no literature, or even any writing at all, because all books are now banned from society and “firemen” go around destroying any books that remain.

Many significant novels have unfortunately been challenged/ banned at a certain point in time. Most of these literary classics face this because some contain sexual references, religious intolerance, and inappropriate language. In some cases, books are being pulled off shelves because people believe that they were “tangibles of instruction” or the reason being was as a precaution towards a possible public attack which took effect in Tucson for the Mexican American Studies (source:8). Another case is the Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education; Christian sewed the board because they believed that the required textbooks hurt their beliefs (Source:8).

During the time period of this novel, the culture and images being pushed upon people depicts relationships of no complexity or affection (Magill, ed. 253). Falling in love is one of life’s greatest pleasures and the government has taken that away. Montag and Mille even fall victim to this with their marriage, in fact, they do not even know how they met (Bradbury 45). This seems to bother Montag but Millie, who is more naive and has been completely brainwashed by the government, sees it as no big deal whatsoever. In fact, Mille seems to have seen it as a joke, which was apparent when she makes the remark, ‘Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband ’r wife’(46). Another instance of government oppression resulting in

When everything is censored, no one “knows” anything, that is why it was impacting when Clarisse made Montag think. Faber later in the story says “I talk the meaning of things, sir. I sit here and know I’m alive.”(pg. 71) Censorship can cause people to contrast one another. Not knowing what is happening in the outside world. Faber

“Other research has found that exposure to media violence can desensitize people to violence in the real world and that, for some people, watching violence in the media becomes enjoyable and does not result in the anxious arousal that would be expected from seeing such imagery” (American Psychological Association). Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 explores the concept of violence in the media, the impact that widespread media usage has on society, and censorship. In the dystopian future portrayed in the novel, information is only obtained through parlor walls and technology, while censorship is seen through book banning and burning. It shows the effects of living in a culture where violent media and visuals are dominant, not only in the

    Ray Bradbury criticizes the censorship of the early 1950's by displaying these same themes in a futuristic dystopia novel called Fahrenheit 451. In the early 1950's Ray Bradbury writes this novel as an extended version of "The Fireman", a short story which first appears in Galaxy magazine. He tries to show the readers how terrible censorship and mindless conformity is by writing about this in his novel.

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” said Albert Einstein This is similar to the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury when he talks about his negative point of view to the use of technology. Although Ray Bradbury wanted readers to understand that the society in Fahrenheit 451 has no room for literature, the theme of Fahrenheit 451 is censorship because fast cars, loud music, and massive advertisements creates the society and they did not appreciate normal things such as reading books. The theme of censorship appears in the novel several times and is a major theme throughout.

In this novel, books and free thinking are banned from humanity or rather estranged and suspicious. There are not single explanations of why novels and many other things are banned but possibly multiple. These are not individually distinguished but with underlying meanings of the activities commonality engages in, you have a better understanding of why. This novel is taken place in futuristic 24th century America.

Every year, hundreds of books are challenged, banned, and/or removed. According to American Library Association, more than 11, 300 books have been challenged, banned, or removed in schools and libraries across the country since 1982. The reasons why books are banned were discussed during an interview between Time For Kids and the director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, James LaRue. "Books are banned because they fall under one of these categories of controversy: Religion, Sexual Content, Profanity, or Race." (LaRue, 2016). Many books that have been banned, at one point in time, fall under one these categories. Some more well-known books included: The Holy Bible, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill

One of the biggest points of the book is the outlawing of books. This is because books almost all have opinions and they were written in a time where people voiced their opinions and weren’t