Literary Analysis Of Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Caden Walker

Mr. Coe

English Literature

11 April 2023

Fahrenheit 415 Literary Analysis

Imagine a world where the government serves and protects the people, keeps them safe, however, this very thing is what makes the world unsafe. Often, what the government and higher powers do is all but out of concern for you, for the people, and for the general population. The award-winning novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, was written in 1953. Inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany during World War 2. This novel sought to expose a future where Nazi-like traditions were an everyday occurrence. A future where firemen, instead of extinguishing fires, extinguished books and “free thinking” by burning them, “an upside-down world.” Through irony

These rules never work. Mildred’s stone-cold expression at Clarisse’s death displays ignorance of the real problem of how common these accidents are, an ignorance caused by the removal of books from society, something the government imposed to increase safety. Mildred’s death along with thousands of others in a bombing that could have been prevented along with the murder of an innocent man in place of another shows the selfish intentions of the government. This novel also leads into the unseen facts of the government, all the things that are done in the book are done to “protect” people but the true reasons for the decisions by the government are more frightening and evil. This can be seen in the real world today, where books are being banned to “protect children,” but this may not be the real reason. This novel focuses on an advanced version of what has been happening all of the time, with the furthest it's gone being the book burnings in Nazi Germany. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a novel exposing the truth of government intentions and how ignorance is the one thing that makes the world the most unsafe. A world such as this may not be so