The theme of my graphic interpretation is Bradbury , the author of Fahrenheit 451, depicts that the government were able to control the society lack of knowledge by keeping people sealed in ignorance using cautious manipulation. In the beginning of the book, Mildred's ignorance engaging every night to the seashell radio “there had been no night… Mildred has not swum that sea”(Bradbury 10). She was so clueless that she down a bottle of pills, getting her stomach pumped by a snake like machine, and have not recalled doing so and respond with “ I wouldn't do that,”(Bradbury 17). Mildred also find the tv programs intriguing, even though it gives her no room for original thoughts. She would sit in front of the parlor wall in the living room for hours answering to the tv “It’s sure fun” (Bradbury 18), but learned nothing from the tv programs since the government has control over the scripts of the actor, and audience can only participate if they follow the script also. …show more content…
This is another technique use by the government to control feelings, curiosity, and thoughts. If books were found, firemen would come and set the books on fire. Beatty, the captain of the firemen, acquire great amount of knowledge through books. Beatty mentioned about books while he talks, but he never ponder of using it to insight himself about the world around him as he suggested to Montag “Don’t let torrent melancholy… drown our world”(Bradbury 59). Captain Betty almost find it sickening that he knows so many information, he consider the information worthless because the government has subconsciously manipulate him. As he phrase to a woman that wouldn't let go of her books “ you’ve been locked up here...regular damned Tower of Babel,”(Bradbury 35) Although his intelligence about the world is greater than most people in Fahrenheit 451, Beatty still choose to live in