Caution Flammable Material In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Caution Flammable Material A politically correct world. No one can be offended, the press cannot report on offensive subjects, history books need to change or write out offensive past events, and books that have any form of offensive opinions needs to be gone. In fact, opinions are to offensive, they are not allowed. This is what happened in the fictional world of Fahrenheit 451. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about government censorship of opinions and trying to make everyone have the same opinion. However, Bradbury is also sending messages saying that technology will turn everyday people’s lives into a zoo, and the zoo keeper who feeds them is the government. The rise of technology will lead into people being oblivious to the corruption

When people read a story they form their own opinion. They form opinions on the characters, on what they think about the theme, and if they liked or disliked the book. An example would be when Guy Montag reads the Holy bible he can form his own opinion. Does he think the bible is horseshit and everything about it is terrible or does he think the messages are so pure he puts his faith into it, he could even be somewhere in between no one can know it is his opinion. The governments job was to figure out how to make everyone have the same opinion. They used technology of course. In The Life of the Mind and a Life of Meaning: Reflections on Fahrenheit 451 by Rodney A. Smolla, Smolla said that it first started with changing photography, then motion picture, radio and television. “Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm, do you follow me? Bradbury 54” The government started using technology to make everything bland and all the same. The old books did not follow this way of thinking. To make it hard to form an opinion on classic stories and history they sped everything up and cut out important details of the story or what happened in history. “Everything became condensed, with classics cut to fifteen minutes, then to two. Bradbury 54” Beatty then continues to talk about the fast-paced electronic images in movies moving too fast to fully grasp and understand. The English Professor Faber mentions that technology moves so fast and loud it is hard to think of anything else, therefore it must be