In Fahrenheit 451, the authorities have a goal of achieving peace amongst individuals/states in order to eradicate conflict and chaos. However, the government wants to achieve this on their own terms, through the oppression of its people and restricting them from literature so these people don’t develop radical ideas and learn of mankind’s history of war and conflict and rebellion. The society’s rules of the banning of books are laid out with good but misguided intentions. The target of peace has been delivered in tyrannical means through the denying of mankind’s gift of the written word.
