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First, Captain Beatty misquotes the Constitution of the Unites States stating “We must all be alike…not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal” (Brown). Beatty is actually quoting the Declaration of Independence not the Constitution. Bradbury emphasizes “the power of language and the tyranny of its miss use, censorship, or absence” (Brown). The second point illustrated by Captain Beatty was that the government did not organize censorship but various minority groups who did not want material they found offensive published. Captain Beatty states “technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them you can stay happy all the time; you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade-journals” (Zipes). A related critical essay discusses the issue of minority interest and censorship. Minority groups do not want material they feel is offensive to be included in school curricula. However, the essay also points out that any material may offends someone, or some group, at some point in time (Angelotti). This issue was argued in the Supreme Court in 1982. This court ruled that it is “…unconstitutional for a school board to deny students access to ideas with which the school board disagrees (Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico)”
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In the book, the purpose of advanced technology was to make life happier, easier and better. People spent more time zoned out watching television or interacting with technology rather than other human beings (Johnson). Mildred became “so devoid of introspection and reflection that at one point, Montag discovers that she cannot even remember how they met” (Brown). When Mildred attempted suicide, Montag, was alarmed by the “mechanical, indifferent way the operators treat his wife with a machine that revives her by pumping new blood into her system. Moreover, he becomes highly disturbed when the pill given to his wife by the operators makes her unaware the next morning that she tried to take her own life” (Zipes). This technology had slowly destroyed
In the book, the purpose of advanced technology was to make life happier, easier and better. People spent more time zoned out watching television or interacting with technology rather than other human beings (Johnson). Mildred became “so devoid of introspection and reflection that at one point, Montag discovers that she cannot even remember how they met” (Brown). When Mildred attempted suicide, Montag, was alarmed by the “mechanical, indifferent way the operators treat his wife with a machine that revives her by pumping new blood into her system. Moreover, he becomes highly disturbed when the pill given to his wife by the operators makes her unaware the next morning that she tried to take her own life” (Zipes). This technology had slowly destroyed