Censorship In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

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In the novel Fahrenheit 451, censorship has affected much of their society. From the personalities of people, to the devices, to the wording of “Hello”, the citizens of fahrenheit 451 were almost programed like. They seemed to be almost the same person. Just clones and clones of the “ideal” person. And we start to think.. What about this society has made them all like these clones? Well for starters the individuality. The books represented more than books they represented their own opinions, secondly how technology has affected connection. They replaced everything by advanced technology that were all programed the same. Lastly the information that was given to them was all given by the people of higher power and some government. They never necessarily found out things on their own and it was always filtered.[ …show more content…

When we look at the main surface like topic we se books being burned. But as we take a deeper look into what the books truly represent we see more than pages with ink, we see peoples opinions and beliefs. What truly makes somebody unique? How they think and what they believe. But as we see these books being taken away we see that in deeper meaning the censorship is attempting to take away people's opinions and identities so they will just follow what the government wants them to believe. Second we see that the people in the society of fahrenheit 451 struggle to have deep connections with other people. For example when montag hears about clarisse and her family having common talks and laughing together montag found that weird. Here we see that the society is so revolved around things like electronic devices, and more “advanced” technology. Therefore they don't truly have time or have the capability to have genuine conversations and just simple