As commentary on contextual anxieties, dystopian composers have portrayed the government's censorship of subversive ideologies which were seen as threats to the government's own principles. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 has the notion of book burning where the government in the society seeks to remove values of freedom to choice and thought. In the novel, Guy Montag is told by Beatty, a fellow fireman "A book is a loaded gun, who knows who might be the target of a well read man?" where the imagery of a lethal weapon is used to demonstrate the threat that freedom to thought poses to the totalitarian government in society. This is reflective of the American government in the 1950s who censored individuals suspected of advocating communist
