Fahrenheit 451: Analysis of Society
“Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries of more." (Bradbury 61). Ray Bradbury shows how the government in the world of Fahrenheit 451 keeps its citizens 'happy', swaying them away from politics and negative things that they think might affect them in some way. "It was a pleasure to burn."(Bradbury 7). This is how Bradbury introduces Guy Guy and the life of a fireman, he describes what the job and life style of a fireman is and it is radically different from the firemen in today's culture. Rather than extinguish fires, they start them and burn forbidden books.
Censorship and unfairness are the largest focuses of Fahrenheit 451, and will be the main topic for the rest of this essay, but smaller elements like Bradbury's focus on how people disconnect themselves from reality and try to isolate and surround themselves with technology, similar to today's modernization and leap in technology with smart phones and computers. Bradbury's main focal point is on the censorship of a society and how people are oblivious to it. When Guy asks about the past purpose of firemen, but hit fellow firemen produce their copies of the rule books, that also have a brief history of American firemen which says "Established 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First fireman: Benjamin Franklin." (Bradbury 38). Beatty probably knows that the true history of firemen was once to put out fires rather than create them, but he chooses to let the other firemen, Stoneman and Black, handle Guy's sudden interest in history. The fireman's responsibility is to burn books, and therefore destroy knowledge. Through these actions, the firemen promote ignorance to maintain the sameness of society, which is the fundamental of censorship. Guy After befriending Clarisse, Guy finds himself unable to accept the status quo, believing life is more complete, true and satisfying when knowledge is welcomed into
Censorship and unfairness are the largest focuses of Fahrenheit 451, and will be the main topic for the rest of this essay, but smaller elements like Bradbury's focus on how people disconnect themselves from reality and try to isolate and surround themselves with technology, similar to today's modernization and leap in technology with smart phones and computers. Bradbury's main focal point is on the censorship of a society and how people are oblivious to it. When Guy asks about the past purpose of firemen, but hit fellow firemen produce their copies of the rule books, that also have a brief history of American firemen which says "Established 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First fireman: Benjamin Franklin." (Bradbury 38). Beatty probably knows that the true history of firemen was once to put out fires rather than create them, but he chooses to let the other firemen, Stoneman and Black, handle Guy's sudden interest in history. The fireman's responsibility is to burn books, and therefore destroy knowledge. Through these actions, the firemen promote ignorance to maintain the sameness of society, which is the fundamental of censorship. Guy After befriending Clarisse, Guy finds himself unable to accept the status quo, believing life is more complete, true and satisfying when knowledge is welcomed into