Censorship In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Censorship plays a major role in Ray Bradbury's book; so much that it is out to pass on a message to its readers. Fahrenheit 451 conveys the pre-modern issues of censorship and exposes the value of conceptual knowledge, as well as masking the emotions and feelings of the common people. The story follows with an emphasis on censorship, censorship being pushed to extreme levels of limitations. Drastic measures such as firemen invading locales with the sole purpose of "cleansing" people from the vile, toxic, and illegal item known as a book. A distopian future where freedom does not exist is exploited by the censorship the government puts into play. A future where written literature no longer plays a role in modern society. Witnessing the changes

With them being illegal and all, as well as having any potential owners arrested and their books burned if discovered. It all boils down to a compact explanation as to why censorship is so powerful in this setting. With society booming it simply just leaves no time nor space for books, not when turbulent music, state of the art automobiles, and the ever so stimulating advertisements are present. People are blinding and censoring themselves, of course it doesn’t help that it is also law to revoke and burn books. Books aside society has lost so much more than just literature; they've lost the ability to acknowledge and appreciate nature as well as themselves with no thoughts of their own; a clear lack of self-reflection. Government censorship aside most people have pretty much forgotten about books all on their own and could care less about them. Ignorance was at an all-time high, those who were already blinded by the glamour of the new world were blissfully unware of what was going on in the world around them. Those who endured the suffering of their literary prints being revoked and lost forever were forced to adapt and overcome the censorship and oppression laid before

The United States feared that this political practice would become extremely prominent in other nations. Primarily focusing on those nations who were nearby the U.S. Latin America for an example "The United States had been fostering cooperation against Communism for over a decade, and many Latin American elites opposed Soviet influence for their own reasons as well. Communist alignment with lower class movements seeking greater economic equality made Communism a threat to the propertied classes of Latin American nations."(William 88). With the cold war gaining momentum and the people becoming more and more concerned, it was the perfect setting for the government to come in and interfere with the information that was being fed to the public. The danger of the "Red Menace" had a stupendous effect on the American people and I believe Mr. Bradbury was indeed also affected. However his experience with what he saw and heard was different, the way he conveyed the information was on another spectrum, Bradbury was aware of what was being fed to him and the masses. The political climate was no longer clear to the people, instead it had become a red