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Fahrenheit 451 Censorship Quotes

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Fahrenheit 451
“I shot one continuous bolt of liquid fire at him”(119), Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian society where having books is illegal and the only consequence is fire. The dictator is fire. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury illuminates the idea that censorship and knowledge go hand in hand; this becomes clear to readers when Ray uses indirect text evidence to reveal these two themes.

Censorship is, most prevailing, and impossible not to sense within fahrenheit 451. “Established 1790, to burn English influenced books in the colonies . First fireman: Benjamin Franklin.”(34) This quote teaches everyone who’s been in a history class that this is a lie, and in fact Benjamin wasn’t a fireman and this is all a lie to the people.

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