The governments in Fahrenheit 451 and in our real life society suppress knowledge because they want the people they have control over to think that the government that they’re living with is an okay government so the citizens won’t revolt and rebel. They also would like to keep the ones living in their nation stupid so they can manipulate the occupants to their will whenever they want without question or even the people’s differing opinions.
In Fahrenheit 451, knowledge is suppressed to the point that all of the books that the people once had are now to be burned and destroyed. While we may not have it that bad in our everyday lives, we still have our own governments hiding information from us and labeling it all as “CLASSIFIED”, “TOP SECRET”, Etc. That’s just all of the bad things, but the government will always tell you when they do something good,but if we never hear any of the bad things we will always be kept in the dark and will be blind to the problems of the world. A perfect example of this is on page 88 of Fahrenheit 451, when Faber is talking to Montag and he said, “Ten million men mobilized, but say one million. It’s happier.” Those numbers were in reference to how many soldiers were at war. Another …show more content…
That point is proven perfectly in Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury may have been trying to tell all of the people who read his books that they should acquire knowledge and have opinions of their own and don’t just blindly think that what the government tells you is the flat out and whole
In Fahrenheit 451, knowledge is suppressed to the point that all of the books that the people once had are now to be burned and destroyed. While we may not have it that bad in our everyday lives, we still have our own governments hiding information from us and labeling it all as “CLASSIFIED”, “TOP SECRET”, Etc. That’s just all of the bad things, but the government will always tell you when they do something good,but if we never hear any of the bad things we will always be kept in the dark and will be blind to the problems of the world. A perfect example of this is on page 88 of Fahrenheit 451, when Faber is talking to Montag and he said, “Ten million men mobilized, but say one million. It’s happier.” Those numbers were in reference to how many soldiers were at war. Another …show more content…
That point is proven perfectly in Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury may have been trying to tell all of the people who read his books that they should acquire knowledge and have opinions of their own and don’t just blindly think that what the government tells you is the flat out and whole