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Censored In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In the book Fahrenheit 451 the characters, cultures, and themes creates an interesting story about a society in the United States that doesn't value human connections. This book highlights the effects on a culture if the entire population was censored from reading or learning virtually anything that the government wasn't comfortable with them learning. I will be exploring the relationship between the Main character Montag and his wife Mildred, the education system, and the technology that is used in this realm. In the society of Fahrenheit 451 book and other forms of knowledge are forbidden so the government has squads of “Firemen” who are government workers that are tasked with destroying all the books in the United States, they …show more content…

In the story the main character Montag is one of these government workers while his wife Mildred mostly stays at home as a housewife. At the beginning of the book Montag starts to develop an interest in literature. "Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books" (Bradbury, 49). He starts to amass a small collection of books behind his ventilator grill, which he ends up changing up his spot and montage starts to hide them in a bush outside near the alley. Mildred is very unhappy about montage having a collection of books, she believes that her and Montag should lay low and just enjoy what the government has already given them. “Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody”(Bradbury, 69)! This

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Montag explains to Mildred how books are attached to people and that books are more thoughtful than you may think. He explains this by saying, “‘And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books’” (49). Bradbury uses the word “each” to demonstrate how every book is unique in its own way, depending on how the author writes his concepts. Clarisse and Montag are enlightened role models because they inform us that it is good to be different because this means you can interpret things in a new perspective than everyone

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Beatty leaves and Montag decides he will never go back to work again. He then shows Mildred a hidden stockpile of about twenty books he’s been collecting. She tries to burn them but he convinces her to trust him for forty-eight hours while he tries to read them. The two of them try to read the books, but Mildred resolves that she much prefers her tv to the boring books, and Montag decides he needs a professor to help him understand the

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In today's society, inappropriate content is revealed to citizens constantly. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury gives a great example dealing with censorship. In the book, it shows a society that burns books because they feel that books cause a corrupt society but Montag, a firefighter, tries to turn around the law and fights for the rights of books. In order to have a strong society, we need censorship.

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The first line of dialogue that Montag says is “it was a pleasure to burn”(pg. 1), which elucidates that he is just like the rest of the society. Bradbury introduces both of these characters as ignorant so the reader is able to draw a similarity between the way Montag is illustrated in the first page and how Mildred is characterized throughout the novel. This aids in tracing Montag’s coming of age journey because as he gets enlightened, the reader is able to distinguish how his mindset starts to diverge further away from Mildred’s. At the very end of the second chapter leading into the beginning of the third chapter, Beatty orders Montag to burn his own house, and as Beatty is speaking to Montag, Mildred runs past them “with her body stiff”(pg. 108). Through the employment of body language, Bradbury implies that Mildred is the one that turned Montag in to

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Fahrenheit 451 clearly demonstrates the potential effects of censoring literature. In Bradbury’s society, literature is the only medium directly censored by the government. Their literary ban had such an extreme effect that they don’t even need to censor any other media. The citizens of this society are entertained and distracted to the point where the government can basically do whatever they want. There is no need to censor the news because the people don’t care enough to pay attention or question it.

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Once the government decided to put a censorship on books, everything changed. People lost their education, how to think for themselves, and most importantly, their freedom. In the year 2052, the government has decided to not only ban books completely, but to even go as far as to outright burn them. This affected every person and even how the world functioned.

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“They read the whole afternoon though, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house”(71pg). This shows how important montag feels reading is and wants to share it with his wife mildred. Another very important experience for Montag was when while walking in the park he met an old man named Faber. He was an old retired english professor who like Montag shares the same views of the world and reading. All montag wants from then on is to learn about life and books and others.

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The next character Bradbury used in the novel is a character called Mildred. Mildred is Montag’s wife and is different from Montag being that she sees nothing wrong with society. Mildred is very against the idea of Montag having books and even burns Montag's books herself. She is also different from Montag because she is very against critical thinking and follows society by watching a lot of TV and listening to sounds through an earpiece so that she does not have to think. Bradbury makes it very clear that Mildred and Montag do not love each other as married people should, but that Mildred is more concerned about other unmeaningful things.

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Imagine waking up one morning and not even remembering how you met your wife who you’ve been married to for ten years. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury a fireman named Guy Montag lives in a futuristic dystopian society where firefighters ignite flames instead of extinguish them. The vast majority of people living in this society have been completely censored from the history of their society and what has truly happened in the past. The people in this society do not think independently, enjoy nature, or even have meaningful conversations. Instead, they drive very fast cars, are constantly listening to the radio with devices called Seashell Radios as well as are consumed by television screens the entire day.

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This scene exposes Montag’s true feelings of hopelessness because he can’t do anything to help Mildred, showing a recurring internal conflict. This conflict makes Montag sensitive because he feels that his actions are responsible for the downfall of others, furthering his feeling of hopelessness. In comparison, Montag states, “But let me tell you my plan-” (Bradbury 85) when explaining his plan of hiding books in firemen's houses to Faber. This plan supplies Montag with a strong purpose and a sense of direction because he believes his actions will better society.

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You read and I look around, but there isn’t anybody!” (Bradbury 69), Mildred’s quote to Montag shows the mindlessness of the people who have been brainwashed by society, and do not have individual thought or personal happiness. Eventually, the world in the book will realize how unhappy it is being controlled by the government, and being forced into equality, that the population will think individually and stand up for

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This lady really believed that books were important. She refused to leave the house and she was burned to death. That's when montag really started thinking. When i was reading this book one of the

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Reasons why people need do not need censorship. It’s been argued censorship is good for society. Many people believe censorship can form the society an excellent place. Therefore, in reality, it just shows how much the government does not believe people are mature enough to handle what is happening in the outside world.

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Mildred in the novel is Montag’s wife. She is the perfect example of a conformed person in this society because she is brainwashed by the tv that the government has set in place. Proof of such is when she said, " 'Books aren't people. You read and I look all around, but there isn't anybody!' ".

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When Montag reveals his hidden books to Mildred, she does not take time to understand them. “‘It doesn’t mean anything!’” (Bradbury 65).  She, instead, worries about how it might affect her image if they are found out. “He could hear her breathing rapidly and her face paled out and her eyes were fastened wide” (Bradbury 63).

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