What Is Censorship In Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 Firemen set fires, not put out fires. Firemen burn books, not save them. Imagine the world with firemen that didn't save people from kerosene, but saved them from the books itself. Imagine a dystopian society in which books were abandoned and they were our enemy. The 50th Anniversary Edition of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a classic novel of censorship and defiance, in which books were burned, along with the houses in which they were hidden in. Guy Montag was a ten-year experienced fireman whose job was to burn books. He enjoyed doing this and never questioned anything of what he did until he met a seventeen-year-old girl, who told him about a past when …show more content…
He said the words to himself. He reorganized this as the true affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back." (10, 12) Montag first starts off happy with his "normal life." Clarisse points out all the little things that always go unnoticed by everyone in the society. As he thought about this, time went on. With these thoughts, he was not happy. Montag lives in a society that hasn't even realized what the government has done to their happiness and that they have always been living in the darkness. Furthermore, he came to the realize that this society was dark, bland, and ungrateful. Montag slowly becomes aware of his surroundings and opens up to the fact that living in his community without knowledge is not right. Montag then realizes how much he has been acting similar to a puppet, being clueless towards his surroundings. In the same way, Clarisse helps him realize how much people in the society are blind to their environment and completely emotionless to each other. Montag notices that Clarisse is right about the whole happiness thing. The happiness he had his whole life wasn't what true happiness was. Clarisse has a talk with Montag