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Fahrenheit 451 Censorship
Ray Bradbury’s book “Fahrenheit 451 accurately portrays censorship from throughout history. From today’s legislators and their efforts to censor the mass media, to the suppression of the past in foreign nations, the acts of the “Firemen” in Bradbury’s book “Fahrenheit 451” are alike in method. The book burnings committed by the “Firemen” to extinguish any knowledge and personal thought has been presented as a continuous cycle in both the novel, and throughout history. Examples of such censorship consist of outlawing literature, elimination of the offending works, and sometimes, violence and sometimes even execution of the authors of the forbidden works.

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