Censorship In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury points out many things, some of these jump right out at you and others not so much. Bradbury encourages readers to keep and open made and look at the other side of the story. Bradbury wrote a short story titled “Fireman” for galaxy science fiction in 1950, which later became the novel Fahrenheit 451 published in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 whose society of censorship in a fantastic world in which books are burned and everybody rich, causes few to realize what is actually going on.

In the book, Fahrenheit 451, author ray Bradbury recognizes censorship as a theme. Censorship is not only shown in each individual’s ethics but also in what the government has brainwashed them to say. Firefighters like guy Montag are not hired to put fires

Guy and others show their ignorance when burning others knowledge or in this case the books. “His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tattered and charcoal ruins of history” (Bradbury 64). Analysis here shows the ignorance of firemen and how they believe the burning of others knowledge is the right thing to do. Then after making his discovery guy fights against ignorance by trying to help others welcome knowledge into their lives. “I’m going to do something, said Montag. I don’t even know what yet, but I’m going to do something big” (Bradbury 62). The evidence her shows how Montag has finally found knowledge and how he is going to rebel against the others

Bradbury references it several times with the phoenix and with the hearth and the salamander. The phoenix is an allusion for when the city is burnt to ashes and needs to rebuilt. “Through the persona of granger, Bradbury expresses the hope that mankind might use his intellect and his knowledge of his own intellectual and physical destruction to keep from going through endless cycles of disintegration and rebirth” (A Study of the Allusions in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451). Evidence shows how the phoenix is an allusion for mankind and how when they are destroyed they will be reborn. Secondly the hearth and the salamander are used to represent how comfortable guy Montag is in his home. “Both symbols have to do with fire, the dominant image of Montag’s life—the hearth because it contains the fire that heats a home, and the salamander because of ancient beliefs that it lives in fire and is unaffected by flames.” (A Study of the Allusions in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451). This analysis compares to how the houses are fire proof and the comfort of the hearth or