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Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Be Banned

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In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury creates a technological dystopia where books are banned. In the society, any type of intellectual thought is seen as odd or unique which is not tolerated. This is closely related to the poem the "Allegory of the cave" where it talks about how people who are stuck in one way and aren't willing to see the truth will often go to extremes to avoid said truth or anything that seems different from what they believe in. In Fahrenheit 451 the main character Guy Montag and counters this young girl named Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse is the first person to really open up Montag's eyes to his surroundings and what the world he lives in has become. In relation, the "Allegory of the cave" Clarisse is the man who tried to get the prisoners to see the world as it truly is. Both the man tried to free his friend mind but much like Clarisse; he was met with a denial from the people. Although Clarisse McClellan, in the end, did succeed in making Montag aware of the world unlike the man in the "Allegory of the cave", Montag later on in the story switched places with Clarisse and tried to awaken the rest of world. …show more content…

All of this only because Montag tried to awaken them from their false sense of reality much like the man in the cave tried to do for his friends. But the women and prisoners are much like people today who act like there aren't anything bad happening in the world and ignore the bad even when its right in front of

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