Societal Growth In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

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No, you cannot read this. It is against the law and burn it! The book Fahrenheit 451 is a book that is based on the future of society. Society burns books, firemen start fires instead of putting fires out, and people think it is enjoyable to kill random people. After being a fireman for ten years, Montag has had enough and wants to read what is inside the books, instead of burning them. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, censorship causes a loss of societal growth, individual thought and personal happiness.
Throughout the book, there are multiple examples of loss of societal growth. One example is the loss an education system. Recall when Clarisse is talking to Montag about being anti-social and school, she says ¨An hour of TV class, an hour of
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The first example is when Clarisse asked Montag ¨Are you happy?¨ (Bradbury 10). Montag thought about what Clarisse and realized he was not happy. Even though a majority of people may love to watch the television in the parlor, this is not the way of life for everybody. The main reason everyone is content with this way of life and think they are joyful is because it is the only way of life they know. Nearly all people that know books or had books in their life are dead or hiding and everybody else thinks books are terrible and that they need to be burned. If most people knew society different they might change their view on their own personal happiness. Another example of personal happiness was when Beatty handed Montag the flamethrower to burn his house. Once Montag finished burning it, Beatty started reading literature to Montag. Then Montag burned Beatty and later Montag realized Beatty wanted to die. From this information, Beatty was not happy either and realized something needed to change. Beatty could not change anything because he was the head firemen and was stuck in the same pattern as everyone else. This never allowed Beatty to find his true personal

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