Imagine living in a society where poetry and literature have been censored and life dwells upon the existence of characters in a mindless television show. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 takes place it a dystopian society. It is set in the 2050’s and literature of all different mediums have been banned for several decades. A fireman’s job is to burn books rather than put out fires. Bradbury is trying to warn us of the dangers censorship presents and the effects it has own our knowledge, curiosity, and ultimately takes away from our happiness. These dangers are still present today. Bradbury shows this through different events and characters throughout the novel. Firstly, through Mildred and her relationship towards society, secondly through
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When Faber arrives to help Montag he says, ‘“It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that were once in books. The same things could be in ‘parlor families’ today….The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us”(Bradbury 79). In this passage, the author is using the theme of censorship once again. Faber is more knowledgeable and able to provide ample advice for Montag. The government had censored books because they did just what Faber said. They caused people to think outside of themselves. Today, society holds many different types of thinkers, however the onset of media has greatly affected how we think and what we think about. As Faber continues to explain the importance of books, he says, “‘So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam’” (Bradbury 79). In this passage Bradbury uses an allegory to compare literature to an object in order to convey the importance of it. The onset of censorship has caused this society to be unhappy and shallow. Today, people often look to surface level television shows or films in order to distract them from having significant thoughts, in other words suppressing themselves from valuable
When Faber arrives to help Montag he says, ‘“It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that were once in books. The same things could be in ‘parlor families’ today….The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us”(Bradbury 79). In this passage, the author is using the theme of censorship once again. Faber is more knowledgeable and able to provide ample advice for Montag. The government had censored books because they did just what Faber said. They caused people to think outside of themselves. Today, society holds many different types of thinkers, however the onset of media has greatly affected how we think and what we think about. As Faber continues to explain the importance of books, he says, “‘So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam’” (Bradbury 79). In this passage Bradbury uses an allegory to compare literature to an object in order to convey the importance of it. The onset of censorship has caused this society to be unhappy and shallow. Today, people often look to surface level television shows or films in order to distract them from having significant thoughts, in other words suppressing themselves from valuable