"It was a pleasure to burn. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning." said Montag. All this damage and harm was caused by one thing: 451 degrees of scorching heat. The book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is about a dystopian society where books are illegal to own for they bring many dangers and painful emotions. This society valued technology, media, security and crime yet despised the receptacles of information known as ‘books.’ Any person found in the possession of them would have their house and books burned so their knowledge would not grow. Montag's world wanted to make everyone equal by erasing books since it gave people superiority. Each book was like a loaded gun that had to be burned so the reader would not use its ‘shot’. Despite the government's ban on books, there were many rebels who found a way to keep the book's knowledge going. These were the people, that Montag joins at the end of the book. Just like Marcus Tullius Cicero, those …show more content…
This was perceived when Montag’s reading of the poem “Dover Beach” caused Mrs. Phelps to start crying for no reason. People wanted more happiness so they played more sports, and desired more pictures everywhere. The novel also stated, “Where’s your common sense? None of those books agree with each other.” This demonstrates that there was no point in reading since books expressed no clear ideas. In the twisted society of Fahrenheit 451, Beatty mentioned the government "crammed them full of ‘noncombustible’ data, chocked them so damned full of 'facts'...but absolutely `brilliant' with information." The citizens were deceived into believing they had plenty of knowledge which rendered the books