In the book, Fahrenheit 451. Illiteracy has led people into a dystopian world and not being educated has made the people of this society easily taken in and advantageous. Bradbury explains and warns us that the more society develops technology and leaves books, the more people will be illiterate and society will be easily controlled.
In the book, Fahrenheit 451 the character Faber said “ The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.” (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451). The significance of this quote is to tell the reader the true essence of books and what it represents and how important it is. Ray Bradbury predicts the future with this book by showing what will happen if everyone forgets about books and becomes illiterate and he shows
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Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.” (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451). This just shows the amount of brainwashing this society has done to the people. They even depict books as weapons, the amount of sheer brainwashing that this dystopia has done is insane. If people were more knowledgeable about books and read them, They would know so much more about the things about them, in general, they would not be scared of books. More likely would love book reading is essential for human growth as I stated. The amount of control the government has is absurd. This society has been through so much brainwashing and sheer manipulation. The main reason why this matters so much and is so significant is due to the fact that using books as a word to make people ``fear” them is psychotic, a book as a weapon. To have fear of such an incredible thing that helps shape the world and help people develop even as much as society is quite extreme. Lastly, in the part where the person burns herself with the house, Montag said “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house there must be something there.” (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451). This is another representation of how books are so unknown in this dystopia. It shows just how much this place is brainwashed and manipulated by the government and how controlled it is. It does show that