“It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury). That succinct, introductory statement represents the arsenal act that firemen perform when burning books in the name of censorship in Fahrenheit 451, a fictional novel in which the author Ray Bradbury ironically depicts firemen as pyromaniacs whose main duty is to burn books in order to censor ideology and conflicting beliefs. Now one may rightfully assume that such a book with make-believe characters and settings has no resemblance to reality, let along to the media censorship in China. Yet that assumption could not be more wrong. Fahrenheit 451 symbolizes the reality of censorship that many in China live with during political unrests.
But first, try to imagine living in Hong Kong with the following …show more content…
Access to Twitter and Facebook and Instagram (all western social media website) was blocked, according to Paul Carsten, author of the article, “China Scrambles to Censor Social Media.” Carsten writes: “On Sunday, users reported that Facebook Inc 's photo sharing app Instagram was inaccessible on China 's mainland. In addition, according to the author, “Chinese websites, including Baidu Inc 's search engine and the Twitter-like Weibo Corp microblog, have set about deleting references to the Hong Kong demonstrations” (Carsten).
A similar situation of censoring ideology also appears in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Just like how the Chines government controlled political ideology during the protest by blocking Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and deleting messages that are related to the protest on the Chinese social application Weibo, Guy Montage, who was once a fire fighter in Fahrenheit 451, and his boss, Beatty, together with the rest of the firemen, were the main content manipulators in the novel. They invaded homes that have books and used kerosene as fuel to burn books and anyone who stands in their …show more content…
Towards the end of part three of the novel, Guy Montag became an escaped convict after transforming away from burning books to defending books. After burning his own home and having killed Captain Betty for finding out about his new affection for knowledge, Montag dived into a river in order to escape the firemen’s mechanical hound; a mechanical hound that was programmed to follow Montag’s
But first, try to imagine living in Hong Kong with the following …show more content…
Access to Twitter and Facebook and Instagram (all western social media website) was blocked, according to Paul Carsten, author of the article, “China Scrambles to Censor Social Media.” Carsten writes: “On Sunday, users reported that Facebook Inc 's photo sharing app Instagram was inaccessible on China 's mainland. In addition, according to the author, “Chinese websites, including Baidu Inc 's search engine and the Twitter-like Weibo Corp microblog, have set about deleting references to the Hong Kong demonstrations” (Carsten).
A similar situation of censoring ideology also appears in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Just like how the Chines government controlled political ideology during the protest by blocking Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and deleting messages that are related to the protest on the Chinese social application Weibo, Guy Montage, who was once a fire fighter in Fahrenheit 451, and his boss, Beatty, together with the rest of the firemen, were the main content manipulators in the novel. They invaded homes that have books and used kerosene as fuel to burn books and anyone who stands in their …show more content…
Towards the end of part three of the novel, Guy Montag became an escaped convict after transforming away from burning books to defending books. After burning his own home and having killed Captain Betty for finding out about his new affection for knowledge, Montag dived into a river in order to escape the firemen’s mechanical hound; a mechanical hound that was programmed to follow Montag’s