Importance Of Conformity In Fahrenheit 451

The Novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, depicts a society in which conformity and obedience are of great value. Bradbury wanted to illustrate the overall importance of conformity in the novel through the idea and practice of censorship. Bradbury also wanted to illustrate the overall importance of reading and thinking freely in a time frame in which the value of reading was quickly diminishing through new technological advances. This dystopian society was successfully accomplishing this concept through book burning, the reason being that books have become such a fundamental part of human culture throughout the world and books enable knowledge and the lack of knowledge creates ignorance therefore making people easier to manipulate. Though

Sometimes people might not actually understand how censorship affects them first hand. Books for example are one of those things that are being affected by this, Books are such a pivotal and fundamental source to the human mind because not only do they enable analytical thinking but they also evoke creativity, emotion, improve vocabulary, memory, writing skills etc. In the story, Bradbury couldn’t stress the importance of books enough, though books were illegal and houses with books were burned to the ground by the firefighters, the protagonist of the novel Guy Montag even questioned the power that a book evokes by saying, “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” I feel like Bradbury is trying to emphasize the importance of literature by basically saying that the women rather burn to death knowledgeable and open minded than incompetent and

The internet provides to us a tool for research using search engines including Bing, Google, etc. which happens to censor most of our searches. Google uses recommendations and other key words to distract you from other topics. These are autocomplete blacklist controlled by Google themselves. They have been known for directing or deleting topics. The internet is inundated with valuable information, opinions and much more beyond the world of social networking. There really isn’t many limitation as to what you can find on the world-wide-web. That term world-wide-web is really outdated now that some countries have decided to censor and or block out the internet completely. When internet censorship takes place, it really limits a user’s web experience. Governments really has begun to censor the internet and even manipulating it to shape the minds of their citizens in a way to propaganda. Just like in the novel the government wanted to brainwash their citizens to think how the government wanted them to by making books illegal and making people think that books are evil when in reality the books had the power within them to break them free from such a corrupt