Theme Of Ignorance In Fahrenheit 451

Pure Ignorance “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” (Martin Luther King Jr). In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a dystopian society that bans books and revolves around technology. In this society, women vote for presidents based on their looks and the government places kids at school at an early age to manipulate their thoughts. The people in this society hardly question why certain aspects of their life is how it is. Ray Bradbury warns society of the dangers of ignorance due to the fact that in the novel, Montag’s society are clueless about what is occurring. To begin, throughout the novel, Bradbury thoroughly demonstrates the dangers of the manifesting ignorance of Montag’s society from the pure naïve people to the lack of education. When Montag and Captain Beatty are having an intense discussion about books, Montag questions, “’What- was it always like this? The firehouse, our work? I mean, well, once upon a time…’” (Bradbury, 31). The fact that Montag is incompetent about his work and that it is the reason for the lack of knowledge in his society demonstrates the ignorance of Montag. If Montag, a fireman who burns books that contain
The readers can comprehend that Bradbury experienced these topics and feels strongly about them. His call to action is for society to open their eyes and stop the complacency when theirs clearly dangers and manipulation occurring in the world. Society of this century somewhat needs his warning, over the years the people receive more freedom like in the Bill of Rights but they’re obviously still controlling. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury furtively gives a message to the readers that a dystopian society containing one man and a few intellectuals have determination to learn