Ray Bradbury once said, “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” His words illustrated the prominent themes of technology and censorship, in Fahrenheit 451. The connections he made, caused people to rethink the relationship, technological effect in the society, process of censoring information for the government, and how the community in Fahrenheit 451 compares to ours. Bradbury heads the book in a direction, revealing all about the technology and censorship written.
In the book, Fahrenheit 451, the two themes technology and censorship are directly related. In many of the scenes, the technology is used by the censorship from the government. The technology in the book dominants the futuristic society and censorship runs parallel to the theme. Guy Montag’s neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, explains, “An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but you know we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you bing, bing, and us sitting there for 4 more hours of film teacher.” (Bradbury, 27) Clarisse clearly talks
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As it fills the homes of citizens, censoring information becomes less difficult for the government to control. People in the society have the latest technology whether it’d be tv-walls or small television screens the size of postcards. During the time of Montag’s chase, the electronic screens all over had said, “M-O-N-T-A-G. Guy Montag. Still running. Police helicopters are up. A new mechanical Hound has been brought from another district-” (Bradbury, 126) The announcement made had demonstrated the government's easy way to get to the citizens through technology. They can show or censor anything they want just with the push of a button, sending messages to all the homes of