In Fahrenheit 451, we see a future without literature to rid the people from deep feelings, just as our college campuses in America are doing by adding trigger warnings to books with possible offensive content.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, all books are outlawed. If anyone was to keep a book in their house, the punishment would be to have their home burnt down. The reasoning for the government taking all the books away was to rid people from education and to do away with deep emotions. Education is key to ending a corrupt society; the more you know the better you can do, and deep emotions cause actions. Seeing that burning down houses is an immoral thing to do, the government didn’t want the people to get educated enough to realize how horrible