David Bailey argues that “knowledge is power and to keep reading” because one who retains knowledge is a dangerous person and books give people the ideas. The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury revolves around a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century, Guy Montag. It introduces a new world which is controlled by the mass of media, and the censorship has taken over the general population. Individuality is not accepted by the government and retaining knowledge is now considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common family time such as talking to one another to playing a board game. In that society, every home has a large screen tv(parlor walls) mainly used for entertainment and governmental propaganda. The houses have been
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The government can have better control because it is very easy to maintain power when no one has knowledge. Books represent free thinking, which is considered a threat to the government. In the article “The Case for Teaching Ignorance”, Jamie Holmes expresses “view ignorance as ‘regular’ rather than deviant” (3). She means to look at ignorance as something we do everyday, rather than hate it. Ignorance can make a person more curious and intelligent. The true color of ignorance is how it helps the human mind think differently and more creatively. Knowledge is ignorance. Knowing one’s ignorance can make one become more wise and understand real knowledge. This shows that the government is very afraid of people gaining knowledge to overthrow them. Also, Faber describes to Montag “[i]f you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you 'll never learn” (Bradbury 100). Faber is talking about how a person learns: by making mistakes and trying to avoid the same mistake. Faber says that a person 's skills become sharpened through repeated attempts and repeated efforts to avoid being "hit". This relates back to “you 'll never know until you try” because Montag is trying to make a change in society and attempting the impossible, even if it means throwing away everything he owned. People like Montage pose a real threat to the government and how society should be
The government can have better control because it is very easy to maintain power when no one has knowledge. Books represent free thinking, which is considered a threat to the government. In the article “The Case for Teaching Ignorance”, Jamie Holmes expresses “view ignorance as ‘regular’ rather than deviant” (3). She means to look at ignorance as something we do everyday, rather than hate it. Ignorance can make a person more curious and intelligent. The true color of ignorance is how it helps the human mind think differently and more creatively. Knowledge is ignorance. Knowing one’s ignorance can make one become more wise and understand real knowledge. This shows that the government is very afraid of people gaining knowledge to overthrow them. Also, Faber describes to Montag “[i]f you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you 'll never learn” (Bradbury 100). Faber is talking about how a person learns: by making mistakes and trying to avoid the same mistake. Faber says that a person 's skills become sharpened through repeated attempts and repeated efforts to avoid being "hit". This relates back to “you 'll never know until you try” because Montag is trying to make a change in society and attempting the impossible, even if it means throwing away everything he owned. People like Montage pose a real threat to the government and how society should be