In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses Captain Beaty, Guy Montag, and Mildred to demonstrate that censorship leads to a better economy and a more equal society at the cost of human individuality. Captain Beatty is portrayed to be someone who is a staunch upholder of the law and is used by Bradbury to explain to both Montag and the readers that censorship leads to a more equal society at the cost of human individuality. After Montag had to see the woman who was smuggling books burn, he stayed home to possibly read the book he smuggled from her home, to understand why she would die for writing on paper. When this happens, Beatty visits him at his house as it is not customary for people to miss work in their society. He explained to Montag
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Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; ” (Bradbury 58). The word ”equal” has a connotation that implies a sort of forced uniformity, where all people are not naturally equal citizens as the Constitution states, but where they have to fit a certain ideal or be made into one to be a part of their society. Furthermore, in this passage, the use of the metaphor “Each man the image of every other” shows how all people become similar to each other, and implies that censorship leads to a more equal society at the cost of human individuality. Moreover, in another part of Beatty’s conversation, the author writes, “The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere..Magazines become a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwatering. But the public, knowing what it wanted, happily, let the comic books survive. And the three dimensional magazines, of course.” (Bradbury 54). The word “dishwater” here has a negative connotation, and implies that books become little more than rubbish as to what dishwater
Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; ” (Bradbury 58). The word ”equal” has a connotation that implies a sort of forced uniformity, where all people are not naturally equal citizens as the Constitution states, but where they have to fit a certain ideal or be made into one to be a part of their society. Furthermore, in this passage, the use of the metaphor “Each man the image of every other” shows how all people become similar to each other, and implies that censorship leads to a more equal society at the cost of human individuality. Moreover, in another part of Beatty’s conversation, the author writes, “The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere..Magazines become a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwatering. But the public, knowing what it wanted, happily, let the comic books survive. And the three dimensional magazines, of course.” (Bradbury 54). The word “dishwater” here has a negative connotation, and implies that books become little more than rubbish as to what dishwater