Fahrenheit 451 took place during 1966, and opens up with Montag as a firefighter who lives in a small society where books have been outlawed by the government fearing independent thinking. As a firefighter it is their duty to burn any books in sight or any that have been reported by information. People in this society including Montag’s wife are drugged into television screens to get their information. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read continuously. He starts hiding each book he receives or finds from the government. It is through this relationship that begins to start questioning the government’s motives behind banding books. Montag soon realizes that he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing what could happen when captured.
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I would like to discuss a bit on a few themes based on censorship and knowledge versus ignorance. In Fahrenheit 451, the reading doesn’t provide a clear explanation of why books are banned in their society. Instead, it discussed many different factors that could combine to create this outcome. Those factors could be broken into two different groups including: factors that lead to a general interest in reading and factors that make people actively hostile toward books. The book doesn’t fully establish these two factors. Surprisingly, they both simply support one
I would like to discuss a bit on a few themes based on censorship and knowledge versus ignorance. In Fahrenheit 451, the reading doesn’t provide a clear explanation of why books are banned in their society. Instead, it discussed many different factors that could combine to create this outcome. Those factors could be broken into two different groups including: factors that lead to a general interest in reading and factors that make people actively hostile toward books. The book doesn’t fully establish these two factors. Surprisingly, they both simply support one