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Effects Of Censorship In Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451 is a book that contains a constant motif: censorship and its effects. It raises a great few questions. How would censorship affect the modern society? Is it legal and constitutional (within the United States)? Would it make an impact on society for better or for worse? The way that the story takes place is a sort of invitation to start thinking about what the positive and negative effects would be if such a society was formed. But is the Fahrenheit 451 society possible today? I believe it is not possible simply because the world is able to distinguish the difference between imagination and bias. Not only that, but books such as this one are able to open up people’s eyes and minds about their society, and help to develop ideas. …show more content…

He has a wife, Millie, who is obsessed with talking to her “family” through the interactive parlor walls of the house and is too busy with that to realize the facts of life in the outside world. He meets an odd girl named Clarisse McClellan one day after burning books, and she makes Montag start to question his life and society to the point of wanting to start a rebellion, which he doesn’t have the heart to do. Many people, when they read Fahrenheit 451, start to question if that is the life the future will give us all. According to the book, that hatred for books started after people lost interest in them. After the interest was lost, the government noticed all the controversy between all the books and how it has many opinions that other people are not fond of, so they decided to fake history as we know it and make sure all books were banned and/or destroyed. Our world appears to be going in the same direction as the book, except not really. In the modern era, it is not as though the books are causing controversy over beliefs and ideals, but it is just the lack of time to read, or the conversion to electronic or audio books, that is causing the interest in books to dwindle. So, at this point, it is not possible for this society to ever be possible unless if the world is taken over by a dictatorship that doesn’t allow any biases or thoughts against their own

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