The Destruction Of History In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In the novel,Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury a guy by the the name of name of Montag had the job to burn books.In this book a fireman's job is to raid homes and burn books because the government doesn't allow them.Normal day to day things included watching tv and listening to music on wireless headphones called seashells. While burning books he realized that he was burning something important,history.Throughout the story he gained knowledge about the history and grows to love books.Montag hides this passion to avoid conflict;This is until the firemen find out attack him.Montag kills them along with the head firemen,Beatty.Since he is considered a fugitive he runs away and finds people that share the love he has for books and history.There …show more content…
I don't know .But I think she’s dead(page 47).” ‘ Clarisse had known about the past and then she mysteriously died after people started catching on about the knowledge about the past.This means there is a very good chance that the government had something to do with the disappearance of Clarisse. Conflict is used to show this central idea, with her being gone makes us see that she was a part of history and through this the destruction of her is an example of destruction on history.Another example of how history is destructed in the novel is that they make up fake news to alter history or to destroy memories of past history.For example in the text it states,“Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin.(34-35)” The government doesn't want anyone knowing that they are in charge of the destruction of history's they decide to make up false news in order to hide the fact that they started the burning of books.Since no one knows about history no man himself is able to state whether or not that is a fact or fiction. The conflict that stands along with central idea is that there is no history or if there is it is all fake.Finally the last exmpple of destuction of history in the book is

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