Censorship: defined by Google as “the suppression or prohibition of any part of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.” The topic of censorship is prominent in Bradbury’s brilliant dystopian-representing book Fahrenheit 451, which takes place in the future where books and general knowledge are restricted and censored. Using Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows today’s people that the censorship of knowledge is a great danger to society because it limits the spread of ideas, causing society to turn “robotic”, and that the power of censorship does not lie solely within the government, but also the people of a society. First, how does Ray Bradbury show us that the censorship of knowledge …show more content…
Burn the book” (Bradbury 59). This quote shows how the censorship of books can negatively affect people by censoring the information about the side effects of tobacco and cigarettes, which can cause people to use tobacco and cigarettes more, causing lung cancer. Second, how can the censorship of knowledge cause society to turn “robotic”? In this case, robotic means having no emotion and not being social, which is antonymous to being human. This is shown when Montag is talking to Mildred about him burning the house with the books and the woman in it, as he realizes that there is a person behind the scenes making the books, saying "We need not be let alone. We need to be bothered once in a while. How long has it been since you were bothered? About something important, about something real?” (Bradbury 52). Mildred, in response to this, disregards what he says and reminds him someone is at the door, which reminds Montag about how she acted after she overdosed on pills, emotionless. This quote shows just how much society has been negatively affected by censorship, reducing the amount of problems that are natural for people, and causing people to have no emotions, as seen in Mildred’s