Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian
novel and the book shows how society is affected by it, using the following
themes:
The society in the novel cannot
used books because they are restricted by the government, this caused
restriction of knowledge. Books are the ones that teach people. In many
passages of the novel it is explain how books were eliminated of the society,
government convince people that books are not useful because they had not connection
between them, they said nothing, they had not a connection with life
and what really matters. Books made people think different and this caused
confusion between people.
"Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn
it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's
written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are
weeping? Bum the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside.
Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate
them, too” (page 59)
People in the novel are not able
to read and understand the meaning of books, they are ignorant caused
by the oppression of the society. That is why Montag was not able to understand
books neither the meaning of books, this shows how the society was design to
believe that books are not useful, and even if you consider them useful you
cannot understand it. Media, propaganda, loud music and billboards helped
Bradbury to create a society in which those things affect knowledge because they are
a distraction, that helps with ignorance.
“"You're a
hopeless romantic," said Faber.” It would be funny if it were not serious.
It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The
same things could be in the `parlour families' today”. (Page 79)
In the book characters are not
allowed to have different ideas, thought is slaved. This is caused because in a
planned society there is only one truth. In consequence the government censored
books because they allowed people to interpret life as they want, besides people
had freedom and they decided can decide what do they want to believed and what do they
want to think. Even though the book never mentioned why they censored books, in
the novel there are shown some possible reasons of censorship.
"Where's your
common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up
here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people
in those books never lived. Come on now! "(Page 35).
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