In 1953 Ray Bradbury published the book Fahrenheit 451, this went on to become the book he is best known for. Part of the reason that we find this book to be so well known is because of the wind range of issues it covers. Had it not been for the events in Ray Bradbury’s life Fahrenheit 451 would not have had the same measure of depth that it ended up having. First off, Fahrenheit 451 is a corroboration on the part of previous works of Ray Bradbury. To start the biggest two influences would be “Bright Phoenix” and “The Pedestrian,” “Bright Phoenix” involves the premise of book burning whereas “The Pedestrian” brought the idea of a society focused on visual media to the table. These two books later ended up becoming “The Fireman” which ended
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The book was set during the time of the Great Purge in Russia, Stalin was getting rid of the old authority in order to consolidate his power. The point Ray Bradbury drew from the novel is that a totalitarian government regime which tries to make itself the only source of power will have to get rid off free thinking, in turn the authors and books thought of as subversive will have to go. This was an idea which was carried out quite a bit more literally by Nazi Germany in 1933. Hitler had promised a new Germany a strong, powerful, back to its roots Germany. To accomplish the goal of becoming strong you have to get rid of the things holding you back. So to get rid of impurities in metal to make it strong you put it in the fire, this was done with all books containing ideas that would hold the new Germany back. This attack on the books quite clearly stuck with Bradbury as he later wrote “I ate, drank, and slept books. . . . It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh. Mind or body, put to the oven, it is a sinful practice, and I carried that with
The book was set during the time of the Great Purge in Russia, Stalin was getting rid of the old authority in order to consolidate his power. The point Ray Bradbury drew from the novel is that a totalitarian government regime which tries to make itself the only source of power will have to get rid off free thinking, in turn the authors and books thought of as subversive will have to go. This was an idea which was carried out quite a bit more literally by Nazi Germany in 1933. Hitler had promised a new Germany a strong, powerful, back to its roots Germany. To accomplish the goal of becoming strong you have to get rid of the things holding you back. So to get rid of impurities in metal to make it strong you put it in the fire, this was done with all books containing ideas that would hold the new Germany back. This attack on the books quite clearly stuck with Bradbury as he later wrote “I ate, drank, and slept books. . . . It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh. Mind or body, put to the oven, it is a sinful practice, and I carried that with