Fahrenheit 451 is set in an unnamed amount of years after 2022, where the United States “started and won two atomic wars” (Bradbury 69). The world of Fahrenheit 451 has strict rules on books and censorship in society, with people not being allowed to read and the news being a very controlled subject. The main character, Guy Montag, is a “fireman” who burns books for a living. The story discusses the faults of society and the extreme dangers of censorship in a modern world. Fahrenheit 451 is a warning to today’s future about the possibilities society has with limitations on creativity and freedom. Clarisse is the first character we are introduced to, besides the protagonist Guy Montag in the story. Clarisse is meant to represent the contrast …show more content…
I know, I’ve tried it; to hell with it” (Bradbury 58). Beatty is shown to have these breaks of character or slips of a mask to reveal a very depressed man burdened with knowledge with nobody to share it with. He cannot make sense in the world he is living in much like Clarisse, but instead of following that curiosity he joined the very people trying to oppose those ideas. The views of the world and society are constantly monitored and censored from the truth for the common folk of the world in Fahrenheit 451. With constant distractions like the parlor walls and the many other technological advancements that were being used by Mildred and others during the story. There is faint talk about a war brewing in various moments throughout the story and it really only comes to full light once the bombs of war are finally dropped on the city Montag lived in and the surrounding cities. The strategic censorship that caused nobody to worry about the war was extremely similar to the ways books were banned in the