Fahrenheit 451 Censorship Essay

In today’s modern world, censorship plays an important role while trying to protect our childhood innocence from the cruel and inhumane world in which we live. The everyday life of a citizen in the novels 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 were beyond censored from the outside world. For example, citizen in the novel Fahrenheit 451, citizens were kept ignorant of the war going on outside their doors in order to preserve their happiness. Likewise in 1984, their government kept its citizens ignorant to order to create a false utopia. In comparison, children in the United States are “protected” from unfortunate events and information that occurs more often than not. One must question whether we as a society are trying to protect them and their innocence, or is the censorship merely to control them. Evidence shows that The United States government and its citizens choose …show more content…
They are still too innocent to begin distinguishing how society deceives the common person, so they less they know the better the government and parental figures believe they are to be. Controlling what a child is exposed to is not to scare them from the world, but to conserve their youthfulness for a longer time period and prevent sorrow or misery from the eyes of a child. Due to many children demonstrating how easily they can be persuaded, as shown in the novels 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, both parental figures and public school systems fought for certaining books to be banned from their libraries. Within 1984, the reader gains the understanding that children are able to follow the laws of the government, all thinking and acting the same way as if they were robots under control of the higher power. Not one can live free-spiritedly, but are held down and forced into believing that they must all perform and live just as the government tells them to. Similarly, in Fahrenheit 451, each child known to be “normal” follows the crowd of delinquents through the destructive decisions in life, leaving consequences