“We bombard people with sensations. That substitutes for thinking”. Set in the twenty fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 introduces a world in which intellectual thought is limited. Individuality is frowned upon, and any out of society norm behaviour is rewarded with arrest. A world in which people live with no remembrance of history, only the words fed to them from television. This story in particular follows Montag, a fireman who destroys books for a living, chancing up to a life-changing meeting with Clarisse. She is everything this society opposes - energetic, curious, and distinctly aware. From there they start to converse; happiness, love, and more importantly about the value of books. The reasons behind this book are plain: caution for the …show more content…
In 1953, Ray Bradbury published his very first copy of Fahrenheit 451. This novel was greatly influenced by the ongoing political movements during this period in America - communism. This political act was called The Second Red Scares (also known as McCarthyism). Bradbury feared that book burning, changes in society he was living in, and this violence would lead to “mass media” impact on reading, and he wanted to prevent the world from abandoning books. In this novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury skillfully intertwines dystopian elements such as advanced technology, government oppression, and the rejection of the natural world to delve into the idea of how people in power abuse their authority in order to censor the society's knowledge. This paragraph explores the society in which Montag lives in and its vivid illustration of a world where advanced technology serves as a tool for control and the filtering of people's knowledge. Consequently, the introduction of a device is present in the earliest pages of the book. A device that lets you see into other peoples homes, your “families” homes. “It'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of exotic peoples rooms” (Bradbury p