Imagine a world where the flicker of a screen replaces the warmth of a conversation, and the burn of a matchstick incinerates centuries of knowledge. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, highlights the importance of forming human awareness in a world focused on screens and shallow connections. The novel delves into topics of censorship, loss of intellectual freedom, and the consequences of societal carelessness in a dystopian world where books are prohibited, and "firemen" burn those that are discovered. Bradbury's language and stylistic choices in the novel suggest that societies might choose to give up knowledge and complexity in exchange for comfort and simplicity, if they choose not to be active participants in society. Thesis