A famous French Renaissance writer by the name of Michel de Montaigne, once said, “To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it”. What Montaigne meant by this statement is that whenever you censor something you only awaken those with a curiosity. Ray Bradbury the famous writer of Fahrenheit 451, was often asked to alter his work. Not being able to express himself, Bradbury often felt fearful for the future and the American government’s emphasis on equality for everyone. Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, is a dystopian novel that describes a community who abides by their government’s harsh censorship, which raises the essential question if censorship is beneficial or harmful.
In part one of Fahrenheit 451, “It was a pleasure to burn”, we discover that the sections title comes from the strict censorship of books. In the book, the protagonist Montag is a …show more content…
After crossing the river and getting away, Montag meets a group of book-lovers who relate by a common appreciation of knowledge with one another. Montag watches as the camera man zooms in on a fake person who they claim is him. The fake Montag is arrested leaving everyone who watches the television with any bitterness towards their government scared. From this event, Montag realizes his government censors the truth in a dictatorship-like approach. After some time, Montag then watches as his whole town is bombed by an enemy country something that was also hidden from everyone. One of the book-lovers Granger then tells Montag, “Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror-factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them" (Bradbury, 163-164). What Granger means by this is that in order for people to change they have to come to their self-realization. With censorship people are restricted from the truth until someone has the courage to reveal
In part one of Fahrenheit 451, “It was a pleasure to burn”, we discover that the sections title comes from the strict censorship of books. In the book, the protagonist Montag is a …show more content…
After crossing the river and getting away, Montag meets a group of book-lovers who relate by a common appreciation of knowledge with one another. Montag watches as the camera man zooms in on a fake person who they claim is him. The fake Montag is arrested leaving everyone who watches the television with any bitterness towards their government scared. From this event, Montag realizes his government censors the truth in a dictatorship-like approach. After some time, Montag then watches as his whole town is bombed by an enemy country something that was also hidden from everyone. One of the book-lovers Granger then tells Montag, “Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror-factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them" (Bradbury, 163-164). What Granger means by this is that in order for people to change they have to come to their self-realization. With censorship people are restricted from the truth until someone has the courage to reveal