Fahrenheit 451 Be Banned Analysis

In Fahrenheit 451, Montag goes on a journey that makes him realize how corrupt his futuristic society is. His wife tries to commit suicide and the people who come to care for her are incredibly insensitive. Teenagers murder innocent people for fun. Religion is mocked and used for selfish purposes. The government lies to people and no one just sits around and contemplates life anymore. The era of thinking is over. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury should be challenged or even banned because of its insensitivity toward religious beliefs that coincides with corrupt morals, disregard for individuality, suspicion of government and its indifferent portrayal of the impact of violence. One major reason why this novel should at least be challenged is …show more content…
The government in the novel seems to rule with an iron fist. People do not crave individuality since people are uneducated about what they are missing. All books are burned so people never actually know what is in them and instead just accept the propaganda fed to them by the government. This blunt attack on the government is definitely a reason to challenge this novel. It is novels like Fahrenheit 451 that make people suspicious and rebel due to fear because they believe they are ultimately living a lie. It is not right to think that governments would ever have this much power, the power to stop people from talking and forming opinions. By taking away their porches and their books, this futuristic society has stops the spread of knowledge that would ultimately start revolutions and then greater change. Another quotation from the novel that yet again shows how quickly this government intervenes to keep their people from becoming suspicious of their corrupt actions. “ Montag walked from the subway with the money in his pocket (he had visited the bank, which was open all night every night with robot tellers in the attendance) and as he walked he was listening to the Seashell Radio in one ear ...” We have mobilized a million men. Quick victory is ours if the war comes … “ Music flooded over the voice quickly and it was gone. “ Ten million men mobilized,” Faber's voice whispered in his other ear. “ But say one million. It's happier” (92). It may be happier but it is also a lie. Yet another quotation that Bradbury uses to try and perpetuate the idea that modern day governments are similar Montage’s futuristic societies government, a government that lies to their people to keep them “safe”. Thus Bradbury, through instances such as this in Fahrenheit 451, helps to create an air of suspicion in modern day