Fahrenheit 451 Argumentative Essay

Potter Stewart once said, “Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself”. The word Censorship simply means the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society. When censorship is the or one of the main roles in a community or in one's life then you lose control of all actions that take place every day. Being controlled by someone or something else forms a plain world for a person or organism to live in. Fahrenheit 451 helps prove the idea that censorship is more harmful to a society due to distraction, influence, and the restraining nature of the content.

The first way that Fahrenheit 451 proves that censorship is harmful is by distraction. This can be seen when Bradbury writes, “Mildred watched the toast delivered to her plate. She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away”(Bradbury 16). In the book everyone is distracted by the technology, and TV’s on the walls, and the cool new gadgets. Mildred reminds me of us teens today. She is plugged into the world around her and is not paying attention to the more important things. They do not take time to stop and look at the world around them and that is caused by Censorship.

This as well can be seen when Beatty said, “I’m counting to ten, one, two.” ,“Please,” said Montag, “Go on,” said the woman, and Montag felt himself back away (Bradbury 36). Humans are influenced by one's around them. The only thing that people see throughout the book is technology and they become obsessed with it. Montag has been impacted by the woman who killed herself. This made him open his eyes to the world which is what society needs in present times. The reason that they only see TV, and computers, and people surrounding them doing the same thing is because of censorship located in the core of the