“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say” -George R.R. Martin. According to the Oxford dictionary, censorship is the suppression of any parts books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene. In other words, censorship means to ban anything that is thought to be a threat to society. Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 and written by Ray Bradbury. He was born on August 22, 1920, and wrote many other famous novels like Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 shows the idea of censorship through the themes of conformity vs individuality, modernization of technology and distraction vs happiness.
Firstly, the novel Fahrenheit 451 demonstrates censorship through the theme conformity vs individuality. Mrs Bowles is a character that greatly demonstrates conformity in the novel. She just like the rest was taught that
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The TVs in Fahrenheit 451 serve as censorship because once someone starts using the scripts and pretending they are part of the family it eventually becomes a reality to them. As seen in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 when Mildred says, “That’s my family” (46). The TVs are used to mislead people from what is happening in real life. The government and the people who control the what goes on the TV. They give the citizens the scripts to manage what they are saying and what they see on TV. It also helps convince the idea of the actors actually being their family. The Hound is also an example censorship since it can be programmed to do different commands. “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think” ( Bradbury 25). This is a sign of censorship since they even control the thoughts of the Hounds. They distract the thoughts of people they make them think that what they think is wrong and why they put in the media is the correct