Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

Censorship is one of the most important topics in Fahrenheit 451. It is obvious that censorship affects the story of fahrenheit 451 drastically. It is what the book is based upon. But there is more to censorship than just destroying knowledge of the world, or diluting cultural richness. It is specifically destroying unique ideas that have been preserved, and will be unable to be recovered. It is like killing a person, by destroying the only thing that remains of them, their ideas. Therefore, by burning books, you are essentially destroying ideas.
Ray Bradbury asserts in the novel Fahrenheit 451, that censorship destroys individualism. We know there is censorship in Fahrenheit 451, but it makes a special connection to individualism. If censorship destroys ideas, we need to find how ideas and individualism are related. An individual is individual because of their unique ideas. If diverse ideas are held from them through censorship, they lose that diversity. This means that through the destruction of ideas, people become more alike. If people become the same, there is no such thing as an individual. And the plot of the novel is based around censorship, and people being the same, censorship destroying individualism is the most important theme in Fahrenheit 451. The first time this theme is brought up during the novel is when Beatty is giving a speech …show more content…
I came to this conclusion by looking at what the book was about. It was based around book burning which is a form of censorship. It is also about what burning books did to people. I explained how burning books destroyed individualism using evidence from the book. Censorship is the controlling of ideas. If you live in a government that controls ideas, you learn to hate them, because you cannot understand them. The government in Fahrenheit 451 essentially controls citizens as a mass, using them, destroying their