Ignorance In Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451

In the book Farenheit 451 written in the year 1953 and published by the company Ballantine Books, Ray Bradbury discusses the life of a firefighter named Montag, in which the characters in the story would consider a utopian society, however to us is a dystopian society. The reader follows as Montag breaks out of his shell of ignorance and begins to realize the massive problems with the world that he lives in. Throughout class many examples were made known that related to the book through assignments, journals, and videos. “Constructing Public Opinion” a youtube video by Justin Lewis discussed the ability people had to misrepresent and manipulate public opinions. Assignment 3B asked to interpret the first 45 words of the first amendment taking into account …show more content…

Ray Bradbury wrote the book in 1953 which was a time nowhere near as advanced as we are now however predicted somethings that we are on the path on. The scary part about all of this is that there are real life events that coincide with aspects of the story. What I read in the story is completely possible and it is backed up with the four examples. The media already can control what we think and if they slowly started getting rid of real news and entertained us we could practically become brainwashed like in the story. As I also thought about the freedom of expression and speech I realized that media could take that away simple by not showing us anything controversial. If we all agree with something how can there be any arguments or variety. The similarities between Ledgett and Beatty and Snowden and Montag was something that blew my mind as I pieced it together. It was a real-life situation that was written in a book in 1953, and it greater convinced me that this is possible. Bradbury did an excellent job explaining the problems that can occur when the public is flooded with controlled media while all four examples were perfect in backing up his