In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, the author conveys a message about the importance of remembering history. Through the story of a world that burns books and stops reading, the writer Bradbury warns us of the consequences of forgetting our past. By looking closer into these consequences, Bradbury highlights the valuable role remembering our history plays in preserving humanity and saving our future. The best way Bradbury emphasizes the significance of remembering history is by showing us the consequences of it being gone. In the book, society has traded books for different forms of entertainment, leading to a state of ignorance. Captain Beatty, a character in the book, says “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.” This quote shows the need or desire to be uniform at the cost of being an individual. What Bradbury is trying to say is that without remembering our past and knowledge, we become a world without individuality. …show more content…
Faber highlights that when he says “those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.” By learning from past mistakes, we gain valuable knowledge about simple human nature and consequences of our actions. History essentially is a mirror in which we can reflect upon bad experiences, and make decisions based on that. Without it, we’ll repeat that same cycle over and over again, in a