Nathan Woolner Mrs. Mitchell English III CP, period II 8 March 2024 The Spark That Ignited Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 Thesis: This led to Ray Bradbury’s views towards rising technology to be influenced by his life during the cold war, these views are expressed throughout Fahrenheit 451. Biographical sketch Early life Birth/place Parents Moving around Writing career Starting the magazine Early works Start of Sci-fi Martian chronicles Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Started as The Fireman Never gone out of print Film adaptation Still read in schools today Bradbury's Influences Development of Writing style Reading Oz Being sick Being read Poe Nazi book burning Soviet censorship Cold war 1950’s Arms race Communist Capitalist tension Military Development …show more content…
in Eller 153). Even though Bradbury never saw combat due to his poor eyesight (Nichols), the war still affected him and his writing. One major influence for Fahrenheit 451 is the book burnings committed by the Nazis in World War II as well as the government sponsored towns the Nazis had set up (Eller 150). These ideas can be seen throughout Fahrenheit 451 with the Firemen Burning any books in an attempt to make everyone uniform, getting rid of free thought, in the same attempt as the Nazis. The Soviets, who had tensions with the capitalist United States, had tried to censor all western and capitalist media to keep their citizens in the dark (“ Taurangi”, Literature 96). In Fahrenheit 451, it is not the Soviets or the Nazis who are banning all books, but their own government. The government in Fahrenheit 451 is censoring any and all information it does not want people to know about. Such is the case when the election is talked about between Mildred and her friends. They brought up the two presidential candidates, Winston Noble and Hubert