Ironically,
Fahrenheit 451 is a banned book about a society where books are banned
(Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.") that has been criticized by society many times due to its violence, profanity, and especially offending many christians. Despite the book being about society rejecting literature to the point of banishment, some areas still challenged to remove the book from schools to give sensitive readers some form of reassurance that they and others will not encounter this book as well. In which, these acts defeat the entire purpose and existence of the book itself about warning the future generations of the possible dystopian society that they are heading towards.
Ray Bradbury could not afford to attend college and decided …show more content…
A society that almost entirely mutually decided that books should be banned once society had become uninterested and even hostile towards literature to the point of banning books entirely
(SparkNotes Editors).
Some examples of banning books would be the Nazis censoring books and people burning books of “witchcraft” (Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.") which may be understandable, although
Fahrenheit 451 was banned for trivial reasons. The reasons why
Bradbury’s book was banned was due to the violence, profanity, mentions of smoking, deliberate damage to religious text, derogatory lines towards christianity, and using God’s name in vain.
Violence can be seen through
Fahrenheit 451 through various murderings of people. A more
Garza 3 notable and gruesome murder was the death of a character named Beatty who was burned alive with a flamethrower wielded by the protagonist himself, Guy Montag (SparkNotes Editors).
Profanity can be seen throughout the entire book of
Fahrenheit 451 to where some schools even allowed the book to be in the library only when offensive text had been physically blacked out like in Venado middle school (Kelly, Johnathan. "Censorship of Fahrenheit …show more content…
"Censorship of Fahrenheit 451.", Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?."). In addition to this Texan couple, another couple in Florida had banded together upset parents and challenged to removed
Fahrenheit 451 from their child’s district as well (Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is
Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.").
Next to be a factor in
Fahrenheit 451
’s banishment would be the deliberate damaging of religious text. In this case, the Bible. The protagonist had finally gotten a hold of the illegal literature and it was described that "He picked up the Bible…[and] began to rip the pages from the book." (84). Adding onto the religious note,
Fahrenheit 451 had frequently used God’s name in vain. Some examples would include " 'For God 's sake, let me be! '’ (53) and " 'Jesus God, ' said
Montag." (69). Not only that, derogatory lines towards christianity were apparent as well where society seemingly degraded religious figures to be apart of society’s “family” as characters for television shows (Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.").
Garza
Fahrenheit 451 is a banned book about a society where books are banned
(Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.") that has been criticized by society many times due to its violence, profanity, and especially offending many christians. Despite the book being about society rejecting literature to the point of banishment, some areas still challenged to remove the book from schools to give sensitive readers some form of reassurance that they and others will not encounter this book as well. In which, these acts defeat the entire purpose and existence of the book itself about warning the future generations of the possible dystopian society that they are heading towards.
Ray Bradbury could not afford to attend college and decided …show more content…
A society that almost entirely mutually decided that books should be banned once society had become uninterested and even hostile towards literature to the point of banning books entirely
(SparkNotes Editors).
Some examples of banning books would be the Nazis censoring books and people burning books of “witchcraft” (Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.") which may be understandable, although
Fahrenheit 451 was banned for trivial reasons. The reasons why
Bradbury’s book was banned was due to the violence, profanity, mentions of smoking, deliberate damage to religious text, derogatory lines towards christianity, and using God’s name in vain.
Violence can be seen through
Fahrenheit 451 through various murderings of people. A more
Garza 3 notable and gruesome murder was the death of a character named Beatty who was burned alive with a flamethrower wielded by the protagonist himself, Guy Montag (SparkNotes Editors).
Profanity can be seen throughout the entire book of
Fahrenheit 451 to where some schools even allowed the book to be in the library only when offensive text had been physically blacked out like in Venado middle school (Kelly, Johnathan. "Censorship of Fahrenheit …show more content…
"Censorship of Fahrenheit 451.", Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?."). In addition to this Texan couple, another couple in Florida had banded together upset parents and challenged to removed
Fahrenheit 451 from their child’s district as well (Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is
Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.").
Next to be a factor in
Fahrenheit 451
’s banishment would be the deliberate damaging of religious text. In this case, the Bible. The protagonist had finally gotten a hold of the illegal literature and it was described that "He picked up the Bible…[and] began to rip the pages from the book." (84). Adding onto the religious note,
Fahrenheit 451 had frequently used God’s name in vain. Some examples would include " 'For God 's sake, let me be! '’ (53) and " 'Jesus God, ' said
Montag." (69). Not only that, derogatory lines towards christianity were apparent as well where society seemingly degraded religious figures to be apart of society’s “family” as characters for television shows (Breazeale, Liz. "Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Banned?.").
Garza