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Ignorance In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

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The world has been in disagreement about whether knowledge is empowering or that ignorance is bliss. The book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, demonstrates a society that glorifies shallowness if the mind and has outlawed books because it is scared of not having total equality. Two characters foil each other to display Fahrenheit 451's valued idea of contentment with ignorance, Mildred, and the exploration of knowledge, Clarisse. Mildred, Montag's wife, is "proud of" never reading and believes books are "junk"(62). She had bad pre-conceptions about books even though she has never read one. There is a world war destroying lives and Mildred "just doesn't care" because she does not have the sophistication to understand it(70). While other people
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