Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, censorship is a tool often used to deter society off the road of knowledge. The government censors any kind of literature and distracts the society with any form of technology. In the novel fireman start fires by burning books instead of putting them out. Firemen enforce this censorship to scare society into following these restrictive laws. Though this book is a stretched exaggeration of what may happen to the American society if we allow technology to dictate our lives, it may happen and we even see some similarities between the modern American society and this functional society.
The Main character in the novel, Montag actually plays a vital role in the government’s censorship of books. …show more content…
Montag begins to realize that everyday things used in the society are just distractions from seeing the big picture. In the book he questions Mildred’s “family”, he asks “Millie does” -he licked his lips- “ does your ‘family’ love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie” (73). In this quote we see that Montag is beginning to question really how genuine these “families” are and whether or not they really are just a ploy for society to become …show more content…
The government always wants to look squeaky clean to it’s people, like their method in society is working. In part three the government fakes Montag’s capture, the book reads “ ‘There’s Montag! The search is done!’ An innocent man stood bewildered, a cigarette burning in his hand” (142). The government wants society so se the consequences of what Montag’s actions were. If they had let the people know that Montag had not been found, people would’ve started to think and rebel. They wanted to reassure society just how well their system worked. Bradbury’s fictional world seemed to are own world today, though it stretched the truth there are many similarities between our society and this one. Banning books for example is actually against the law in this novel, in the book it says “ ‘Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed ‘That’s against the law!’ ” (5). Books may not be against the law but they definitely are censored in our society. Parents and teachers ban certain books in schools and libraries because they feel the children shouldn’t be exposed to certain kinds of literature. The only difference in Bradbury’s society is that,they believe all literature should be banned. Even with the technology the American society is beginning to drown itself in T.V and other forms of technology just like Bradbury’s

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