Examples Of Social Commentary Fahrenheit 451

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In Fahrenheit 451, social commentary is also widely used all throughout the book. It's easily picked out during the uses on censorship, which is part of the book’s meaning/lesson. Censorship on books is so heavy present that there are “firemen” that go into houses and steal and burn books. The government hires them to help destroy all books to censor the society and help them stay isolated. The government fears that the books will make the citizens aware, in a psychological way and individual way. “Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal.” (1.614) In this quote the character is Beatty is saying the reason books are abolished. The reason books are abolished was because everyone is supposed to be equal