Censorship In Fahrenheit 451

Government censorship is a thing that is always being in use for quite a while. Government censorship is in a lot of things. There are more than one different type of censorship. The government censors these things in different ways. There is censorship in books, media, the internet, and more. Some people think censorship is a good thing while others do not. Overall, censorship is a big thing in the world that the government does to limit people to different subjects. One type of censorship in Fahrenheit 451 is literature. In Fahrenheit 451 people get in trouble for possession of books and magazines to read. For example, Montag has books and later has his house on fire. Later the neighbors catch Montag for possession of the books. In the novel, to read has a description as something almost illegal. Betty also explains that in the novel the censorship comes from the people instead of the government. A source quotes as, “Banning a work of art, a book or a play says more about the society and its temperament than anything else.”

They censor news media in a more different way. In the world the government can censor things through the printing press like in China. A source says, “Early medieval Chinese leaders believed their duty to govern China included the requirement to guide the people morally by censoring the expression of thoughts that could corrupt their minds.” In Fahrenheit 451 there is not much information about censorship in the news or media. In some way it can be through the books how the government does not allow them to read books. That also leads to the characters to use the information that the government does not want them to