Censorship In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

In 1951, Ray Bradbury made the first copy of Fahrenheit 451. The book was made by a rental typewriter, ironically in a library. In the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, there are many real world illusions. During the time that the book was made, World war two was just ending and everyone still went to the library. The book is about censorship just like how the Germans wanted to be a more unified country. They tried to achieve this by burning non-German books. In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty says to Montag, “Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.” This shows how Beatty feels about the world and about censorship. Beatty is like Germany because he very strongly supports censorship of books and he is in a position of power in his life just like Germany right before World War two. “The fire is clean” represents how Germany wanted to be clean of outside idea, just like the utopia in the book.

There is also a war in the book. In the part of the book during the war when Montag is outside of the city, enemy bombers destroy the city that he lived in. When he is walking back into the city, Montag thinks about what he’s going to say when it finally comes to him. It was, “And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” He meant this to show that they were going to heal the city since they were walking to the city to bring back books into the system. This can also relate to the war in Europe because Germany was in ruin and Germany and its citizens basically had to start over from less than nothing. (Effect of World War II on Each Country, http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_2_effect.htm, Date Accessed: October 31,