Censorship In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

When the author establishes the world of Fahrenheit 451, it is critical to understand that the censorship the audience is introduced to, occurred out of a majority of the own people’s volition. Beatty informs Montag of this while declaring “it didn’t come from the Government.” (Bradbury 55). He elaborates that their censorship was self-inflicted. To keep the peace, the Government burned and eliminated what became controversial, which included books amongst other items. Censorship, along with the introduction of television, allowed humans in this world to become indifferent to the change. The reader can understand that over time, the world in this novel turned into one of governmental oppression due to the change in nature of eliminating the controversy.

As told by Beatty, “[firemen] were given the new job [as] official censors, judges, and executioners” (Bradbury 56). Through the use of the firemen, there became a different agenda, that prohibited free thought and contained the people to facing a TV screen. In allowing themselves to succumb to television, the citizens became shells of their old selves, content with the distraction fed to them. When the novel reaches its conclusion, the reader is faced with a truth. While Montag is on the run from the Mechanical Hounds, he manages to lose the polices’ tail. Granger tells Montag that their audience wants a snap ending and that “[police are] sniffing for a scapegoat to end things with a bang” (Bradbury 141). Despite its immorality, the Government kills an innocent stranger to provide, displaying themselves to the reader as a form of people who carry out a duty. Their oppression was effortless; the citizens were distracted, which made them conform