Chloey Benton Ms. McRae English 10 Honors 26 April 2024 Title Revealing the secrets of the government reveals the lies of what the people have listened to the whole time. In his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury conveys the dangers of censorship and how the government uses the power of lies to control the population of the people. Fahrenheit 451 presents a future in American society where books are outlawed and firemen are charged with burning any that are found. The novel's protagonist, Montag, believes that if he reads books he will learn about what is wrong with society. Following his initial encounter with Clarisse, Montag began paying attention to his own emotions and came to realize that he is really unhappy. Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Guy Montag and his …show more content…
Censorship is to keep the population unaware of the truth of what is happening throughout the world, and corruption of the government. Bradbury is arguing the importance of knowledge and identity in a society that can be easily manipulated into making the people believe something totally different. According to the story “We must not all be alike”. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal.” This line from the novel shows that they are living in lies. Nothing they think is true, so they live a certain way, not because they want to, but because they don’t know anything is wrong or going on. In the history of Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury wanted his novel to reveal meaning and show what the possibilities are of what it would be like if we today lived in a world around the government. In the story, the government wants to limit the books because that is where the people would get their knowledge from and restricting the information they have access to limits their