Examples Of Censorship In Fahrenheit 451

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Censorship the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. That are considered obscene, politically unacceptable. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury used censorship to show how books were not allowed. Montag one of the character was a firefighter who was one to go to people's house and bun the books if they found out they had nooks at their house he soon became unhappy and changed he started sneaking and reading books and was a fool because his wife left him and he got his house burn to the ground and he killed Beatty and a lady who would not let her books burn. In Bradbury's novel, he used tone in several ways to illustrate damage censorship has on society through his use of charged words, his use of historical symbols, and his reflection of historical positive role models. …show more content…
Well tone is shown through emotional words and here I'm going to give some examples of Ray Bradbury using tone to show emotions in Fahrenheit 451. In excerpt 1 Montag was happy he described himself as "special pleasure", "great python", "amazing conductor", "he might wink at himself" "that smile, it never ever went away". In excerpt 2 Montag was sad because the "women had died" Montag said "a man had to take a long time to put them down on paper" talking about his thoughts of how he felt. He felt alone, and

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