Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn’t that right? Haven’t you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren’t they? Don’t we keep them moving, don’t we give them fun? That’s all we live for, isn’t it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these (Bradbury, p.56).
This shows the different views on happiness in the society. Burning books eliminates people from learning and experiencing new ideas. However, Beatty believes that this makes people happy and by limiting society’s freedom it will eliminate controversy as well as one person being inferior over the