Fahrenheit 451 is set in a future society where knowledge is considered dangerous and individuality is discouraged. The people are kept complacent with a steady stream of meaningless entertainment. A war is being waged, but no one seems to know why or even whom the enemy is. Books are outlawed because they contain ideas that might cause people to question the status quo. It is the job of the firemen to burn books to prevent the spread of dissension and independent thought.
Now Beatty tells Montag why the public lets comic books stay but not the books. The public doesn’t let the books stay because they bashed on people and that doesn’t make people happy so books don’t fit in with society. (57) Beatty told Montag that authors were full of evil thoughts and their thoughts would upset the public. The public was so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred. (57) Then Beatty asks Montag, “What do we want in this country, above all?” To be happy and Montag agrees with Beatty.
Another novelist by the name of Heinrich Mann, makes his opinion public in a political journal in 1931. He is very anti-war as well, frankly saying, “People are already worn down by the struggle of daily life then, more ready to submit” (Doc 10). The effects of the war were terrible on the people, and Mann knows that anything but a united republic would be disastrous for them all because of
Censorship is the idea of not revealing ideas and text in order to benefit society. But in many ways, censoring items causes the world to create biased thoughts based on the limited information released. In some cases the world is blinded because they are told nothing to begin with. Historical events such as the holocaust can prove this true. To this day society continues to be censored from ideas by the government and companies that impact our ways of life and learning.
Zubair Abedin Block 4 The theme of the story Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury is censorship. They live in the future where books are banned and the people are uneducated. If people have books in there possession then they’re in danger of getting in trouble by the authority. The main character of this book is Guy Montag who is a fireman, but in the future firemen start fires instead of putting them out, they start the fires in places that have books in them. Government should not be able to make personal decisions for society because it disrupts lifestyles and ultimately does not benefit people.
Prose claims that American high school students learn to loathe literature because of the way it's taught. Students come to dislike literature because they are constantly analyzing it rather than enjoying it. Prose also claims that the, "...geniuses of the past [are treated] as naughty children, amenable to reeducation by the children of the present, evokes the educational theory of the Chinese Cultural Revolution." Essentially, allowing the students to judge and criticize classical authors causes the students to view them as less than what they are. Prose also says that the students are, "...handicapped not merely by how little literature they have read but by their utter inability to read it."
I find it I retesting that Bradbury wrote this book in 1953 and does an excellent job at predicting what todays society would be like. With the book being so close to our world it makes you wonder if books could become illegal in the
The parents of these children have read these book and most likely learn things the don't even relies came from the books they do not want the kids to read. banning books is one of the worst things that could be done; moreover, it is unlawful and takes away from learning. In this day and age if the
Final Product #2 By banning books, it creates a negative effect on kids and adults and possibly even eliminate the teachings of life lessons for students. Going through life without the knowledge of what else is out there besides “good” in people can be harsh for some people especially for kids. Kids would not be able to handle life too well in the real world, if the whole time when they were younger they were being protected from all the "bad things" and “bad people.” Many people decide to do what they think is best for the safety of children, but in reality when kids grow up to be adults sometimes it harms them in more ways than helping them. Books shouldn't be banned from society, but some books do have suggestive content or profanity. When the so-called “negative parts” of the books remain, kids gain knowledge of what is and what is not good to do, say, or act.
They don’t feel anything inside themselves, let alone caring about others around them. This lack of sympathy is causing the society to crumble down and shrivel into nothing. The society’s downfall is portrayed at the end of the book, when the society falls after losing the war. When we think of the war today, we panic and try to come up with some sort of strategy. However, the people in Montag’s society could care less about the war.