What Is The Theme Of Memory In Fahrenheit 451

The world offers many different attributes, but more importantly, it offers the pure wonderment of books. They offer insight on engrossing topics and knowledge to all those who seek it. In addition, all stories, fiction or nonfiction, can cause unimaginable emotional reactions, ranging anywhere from sadness to happiness. They bring magic to what would otherwise be a world absent of magic. Books play such an imperative part in our society, but what if that was not that case? What if there was such a universe where books are seen as something obstructing and were made illegal, subjected to being burned in fires, the only way to savor a book being to commit it to memory? This is the case in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which asks the question: if all of this was the way of the world, which book would be worth committing to memory? In reply to this question, the stunning book Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain comes to mind. Before delving into why Testament of Youth is a book worth committing to memory, it is essential to understand the novel that elicits this question, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In the novel’s universe, the main character of the fictional novel, Montag, struggles with being a fireman (a person in this …show more content…
Both Fahrenheit 451 and Testament of Youth depict the high amounts of censorship placed on all forms of media, and the backfire censorship can cause. Although, more importantly both depict the fact that one person can change the course of history. This message being the message that truly makes Testament of Youth a remarkable and raw telling by Vera Brittain, who by the power of written words was able to preserve those whose voices and sacrifices were otherwise forgotten. Testament of Youth is a beautiful and tragic representation of a generation who lost their youth to war and all 688 pages would be well deserving of