Censorship
Censorship, Education, and Ignorance in Fahrenheit 451
Adam La Fleur
English 1oth Grade
Mr. Tyler
November 13, 2012
What does censorship mean in the book Fahrenheit 451 and what role does it play in the society? Censorship is the suppression of speech and public communication on a society because the government thinks it is bad for their people. Ray Bradbury illustrates that the government of this time uses censorship to control their people to believe that books should be burned and that they are harmful, it is also shown that the people of the society are suppressed to the point that they are blind to the outside world and stuck watching the Televisions. The people of the society are so restrained in areas of education and are ignorant to what’s happening around them; this causes them to make mistakes such as killing someone with a car or burning someone alive like the firemen. The themes most seen in the book are censorship, education, and Ignorance; they are shown the most by the three characters of Beatty, Montag, and Faber. The theme of Censorship is shown in different ways and it is interpreted by different characters is the book. First Beatty shows his opinion of censorship after Montag calls in sick one day and he talked about how “bad things” should be eliminated in these quotes, “Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too… Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean," (Bradbury 59-60) and “Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical." (115) From these quotes a reader can see that Beatty follows what the government said which is to eliminate books and to eliminate anyone in their way, these quotes also shown
Adam La Fleur
English 1oth Grade
Mr. Tyler
November 13, 2012
What does censorship mean in the book Fahrenheit 451 and what role does it play in the society? Censorship is the suppression of speech and public communication on a society because the government thinks it is bad for their people. Ray Bradbury illustrates that the government of this time uses censorship to control their people to believe that books should be burned and that they are harmful, it is also shown that the people of the society are suppressed to the point that they are blind to the outside world and stuck watching the Televisions. The people of the society are so restrained in areas of education and are ignorant to what’s happening around them; this causes them to make mistakes such as killing someone with a car or burning someone alive like the firemen. The themes most seen in the book are censorship, education, and Ignorance; they are shown the most by the three characters of Beatty, Montag, and Faber. The theme of Censorship is shown in different ways and it is interpreted by different characters is the book. First Beatty shows his opinion of censorship after Montag calls in sick one day and he talked about how “bad things” should be eliminated in these quotes, “Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too… Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean," (Bradbury 59-60) and “Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical." (115) From these quotes a reader can see that Beatty follows what the government said which is to eliminate books and to eliminate anyone in their way, these quotes also shown