Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Essay

Ray Bradbury was born August 22nd, 1920. He married Susan McClure in 1947 and had four children. He won numerous award for his writings, for example, the Henry Prize award in 1947 and 1948. He also won the PEN Body of Work Award in 1985. Some of his books were made into films, like Fahrenheit 451. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, his ideas of a dystopia are represented through the censorship that the government has created for the people of Montag’s society, and the effect it had on them. The character Captain Beatty explains to Montag exactly why there is censorship. He tells Montag that with the censorship of books there is no more racism or discrimination to anyone. With controlment of what people watch and hear, there is no more sadness, politics, or critics (Bradbury). He says that because the technology field grew, nobody wanted to read anymore. So, authors shortened books to suit people’s tastes. Eventually, criticism was taken out of books to make them even shorter, and it evolved into the whole book not being published at all to avoid …show more content…
The robots the government makes become more humane than actual humans. The growth of technology in Montag’s society leads to the destruction of humanity (Eller). The remaining humanity in his society are divided from the intellects against the ordinary, where only the intellectuals will prosper and the ordinary will fall (“Fahrenheit”). The time in Montag’s society is seemed to be meaningless for all of the control the government sets in place. Fahrenheit 451 is described as a story that, “...dramatizes entrapment in a sterile and poisonous culture cut off from its cultural heritage and imaginative life vigilantly preserving a barren present without past or future,” (Mojen 105). Culture and traditions are essentially removed from Montag’s society to avoid controversy from other