Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 may seem one dimensional at first glance; however, Bradbury was actually giving the world a warning in the form of an allegory. He was warning society of what may happen if people continue to be numb to the world around them and less focused on interpersonal relationships with each other. The novel focuses on the dangers that may come if the world continues the way it is going and shows that with these true antisocial behaviorisms comes destruction in society.It is of utmost importance that everyone in this society understands the massive impact that seemingly innocent actions makes. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 addresses the censorship that governments may employ in order to withhold knowledge from their
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The government’s purpose in this society was to maintain control. They did this by making its citizens as happy and comfortable as possible so people will blindly follow the path laid for them because they are content with life. The first sign that this society is complacent is their lack of caring when information is being taken from them. Books are being burned daily, and the more books that are burned, the less knowledge that is in circulation. Whenever Montag read an illegal poem to Mildred and her friends, they started crying because their happiness was replaced with knowledge about the evils of this world. Montag’s society chooses ignorance and bliss, while Montag himself believes that knowledge is power. People in his society believe “a book is a loaded gun in the house next door” (Bradbury 56). They truly think that as soon as an individual has knowledge, he or she becomes evil due to being more intelligent. Bradbury feared that books will no longer serve a purpose because people will become “increasingly anti-intellectual and see them as suspicious” (Ingram). What Bradbury created with this theme in his allegory is the true ignorance of a society as soon as the society puts on
The government’s purpose in this society was to maintain control. They did this by making its citizens as happy and comfortable as possible so people will blindly follow the path laid for them because they are content with life. The first sign that this society is complacent is their lack of caring when information is being taken from them. Books are being burned daily, and the more books that are burned, the less knowledge that is in circulation. Whenever Montag read an illegal poem to Mildred and her friends, they started crying because their happiness was replaced with knowledge about the evils of this world. Montag’s society chooses ignorance and bliss, while Montag himself believes that knowledge is power. People in his society believe “a book is a loaded gun in the house next door” (Bradbury 56). They truly think that as soon as an individual has knowledge, he or she becomes evil due to being more intelligent. Bradbury feared that books will no longer serve a purpose because people will become “increasingly anti-intellectual and see them as suspicious” (Ingram). What Bradbury created with this theme in his allegory is the true ignorance of a society as soon as the society puts on