What is the worst thing the government could do if they were to take control over everything? In “ Taurang 451”, by Ray Bradbury, is a fictional novel where the main character, Guy Montag, takes place in a dystopian setting where the government controls the people's access to books and even goes as far as to burn them and punish people for reading them or even having them in their house. The theme for “Volume 451” is the absence of knowledge and how it affects everyone. The first reason to support my theme is that the government has a controlling power above everyone and there is no ability to think for themselves or have free will. Evidence to support this is, “They didn’t show the man’s face in focus. Did you notice that? Even your best friends couldn’t …show more content…
192, Fahrenheit 451). This supports the theme because the police had just enough time to let the viewers believe that the innocent man was montag and then killed him right there. This is why not having some sort of knowledge beforehand can be scary because then you are just mindlessly taking what the upper power says. Another reason to support the theme of the absence of knowledge is how Montag finally realizes that the life he is living is not what it seems and begins to question it. Evidence to support this is, “he wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (pg. 1). 20, Fahrenheit 451. This relates to the theme of how the absence of knowledge affects people because it shows that even though he seemed to be happy and content, the reality of it was that he was living a lie thus creating a loop everyday and being in an illusion of what he thought was right from what was wrong. My last reason is how Montag is able to confront the opposing power and how he fights and resolves the building pressure of his problem while relating to the