Censorship In Lord Of The Flies

Captain Beaty uses excerpts from books freely, without consequence. The firemen never question their Captain, and they think nothing of the things he says. He quotes books after they have completed a call, and during his fight with Montag. This gives him the “dirty cop” persona, which makes him a bad guy. In the non-literal sense, a couple of other things can be identified as the phoenix such as the government, the books themselves, and ideas. The phoenix, as identified before, is something that comes back from the dead in a sense. For example, in the book The Lord of the Rings by J.R Tolken, Gandalf the Grey wins the battle with the Balrog, but is severely injured in the process and is reborn, to finish his task as a wizard (destroy the ring), as The White Wizard. This idea of rebirth can be applied to the city, and government itself. The city in the book was bombed in
Through the censorship that the government installs in the culture, it is also assumed that the people are more like robots or clones, than independently thinking organisms. In history we see this “extermination” of a certain race, or kind of people in the Holocaust. During the 1930s, Hitler started his rise to power by being elected prime minister of Germany and kept gaining popularity from there. He showed his true aspirations for the country of Germany, and world domination when the Nazi party took over and started their “Final Solution”. His main target was a religious group, the Jewish population, and in Fahrenheit 451 the group they have exterminated is the people who are different from everyone else. People like Clarisse and her family are the outliers that the government had not successfully gotten rid of yet, making their final solution incomplete; which is was lead to Montag’s rebellion to the social