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Censored In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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It is a small beep, a black bar, a blurry face, all censorship. Hide the world from our eyes and our brains from the cruel reality of the world by covering and shrouding the truth. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury a perfectly censored world is depicted, the truth is so far deep that no one even notices it is gone to them. Censor all the books, censor every single fragment of sense, hide full walls with screens leave nowhere to look, burn all the books, redo a fireman and make him a violent soldier who burns all who try to hide books, destroy all the truth left. A fight between socially acceptable and the unknown, between censorship and the explicit truth of the world, a fight between Beatty the chief burner and Faber the cowardly professor. …show more content…

He tries to break away without an upset but he is found out by the fireman overlord Beatty, he is forced to burn his own house, the tight censorship destroys it, leave nothing from a house just because the truth is known there. The fire finally turns on Beatty and Montag burns him with a flamethrower. This leaves the fact fire has no side, it is not good and it is not bad, it burn both enemy and ally with ease, fire is fear and everyone is afraid of something, fire destroys and fear consumes the world. The futuristic people in the town gave the fear this symbol, no one knows to fear it but when one man finally sees it for what it is he is struck and realizes what he thought was pure is an uncontrollable beast. Burn everything, if it makes you insecure, if it tells what is true, if it makes you afraid and if it makes you think “It was a pleasure to burn.” (Bradbury, 1). Caught in between the purging fire of Beatty and the brutal truth of Faber, Montag needs to run, he must make his decision and he must bring the world back from its black and white

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