Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is a story about a lifestyle in the future that has evolved from our society today, but in a different world. The main purpose in a person's life in that world was to relax, not think, and be happy, with the use of electronics. While you may think it's a book about a world in the future that represent's censorship, it can be used as a warning of what could happen to our society if we rely on technology and the media.
In Fahrenheit 451, the government orders the burning of all books and makes it completely illegal to read them. By burning books, it allows more government control over the people by stopping the ideas that make up our advanced society. In the book, the people are controlled by the government. The citizens of that time have no freedom of their own beliefs,but must believe what the government tells them. The book tells us that people must accept the differences and ideas of people and embrace them, not use them the wrong way. By burning books, the government is attempting to limit the citizen's ideas so they can make people "happy." That way, people won't …show more content…
New ideas help give people a meaning to live; new products, new jobs, new food, new music ect. Since the ideas in the Fahrenheit 451 lead to decline in art, music, entertainment, the human instinct is to become extremely bored. This boredom could influence violence and death. It could even cause a war like it did in Fahrenheit 451. This story trying to prove that it is differences that make us more equal than anything. Our differences make us who we are. Bradbury seemed to be strongly stating that people do not have to be the same to be equal. People of all races, religions, and origins have stood strong together to support something. For example, a concert even. People of all race, size, shape, gender, religion come from around the world to see someone perform, and in that time everyone is
In Fahrenheit 451, the government orders the burning of all books and makes it completely illegal to read them. By burning books, it allows more government control over the people by stopping the ideas that make up our advanced society. In the book, the people are controlled by the government. The citizens of that time have no freedom of their own beliefs,but must believe what the government tells them. The book tells us that people must accept the differences and ideas of people and embrace them, not use them the wrong way. By burning books, the government is attempting to limit the citizen's ideas so they can make people "happy." That way, people won't …show more content…
New ideas help give people a meaning to live; new products, new jobs, new food, new music ect. Since the ideas in the Fahrenheit 451 lead to decline in art, music, entertainment, the human instinct is to become extremely bored. This boredom could influence violence and death. It could even cause a war like it did in Fahrenheit 451. This story trying to prove that it is differences that make us more equal than anything. Our differences make us who we are. Bradbury seemed to be strongly stating that people do not have to be the same to be equal. People of all races, religions, and origins have stood strong together to support something. For example, a concert even. People of all race, size, shape, gender, religion come from around the world to see someone perform, and in that time everyone is