Censorship In Fahrenheit 451 Essay

“It was a pleasure to burn,”(3) that was the idea Ray Bradbury was trying to get across in the novel Fahrenheit 451. This novel takes place in the future, where governments only law is to burn books. In this novel, you will see how Bradbury explains the life of Guy Montag, a fireman who burns houses for a living. However one day he burns a house with a woman in who is willing to die for her books, this made Montag have the urge to steal a book. The stealing of the book is what lead him to believe society is lead by censorship. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury shows us a world in the future, in which free thought is controlled through censorship, which leads to an ignorant, insensitive, and non independent society. In part one, “The Hearth and The Salamander”, Montag hasn’t really taken an interest in the books he’s burning. All he really knows is that he must burn every house

When Mildred betrayed Montag, he was put into a position where he killed Beatty to survive, then ran away to Faber. Together Montag and Faber decided that it was best if Montag ran to the river and out on some of Faber's cloths and just laid low. Once Montag got to the river he changed his clothes and floated down the river until he spotted something. At first he was scared but once he realized that the people he was seeing weren’t bad he decided to trust them. Montag had found out that Granger, one of the men, was someone just like him, someone who found a book, remembered it and then went into hiding. In the novel, Granger compares a man to a phoenix because he says that in their society a man will be born, remember a book, then die remembering it, and that this process will never stop. In the end of the novel the men and Montag all watch as a nuclear bomb is dropped on the city. Overall we learn that censorship leads to their society into becoming ignorant, insensitive, and dependent on outside