Fahrenheit 451 is a violent book, we find out that harsh punishments are used against minor crimes to keep the peace, and to keep people ‘happy’ and contented. To keep all people from ever having any strong feeling of anger or sadness the government gets rid of everything that could induce these feelings, “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it… Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too.” If burning books, eliminating feelings and opinions are the only way to peace one should wish to be counted out. That is too high of a price to pay for peace and Montag can see that.
Our protagonist in Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, is a fireman. Firemen no longer put out fires, but they induce them. It is a fireman's job to burn books, burn the houses where the books are being kept and sometimes, burn the book collector. Books are seen as a danger, they are conducive to forming opinions, opinions contrary to those of the government. Fahrenheit 451 is about the government getting so power hungry and controlling that they refuse to deal with any opposition against them. Fahrenheit 451 is about the government's control of its citizens, Sonnet 94 is the opposite, control over oneself.…show more content… In Fahrenheit 451 Montag has the power to burn books and he does, for a long time, he is a fireman after all but then he met Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse makes Guy think not only about what he does to books but about everything; his wife, job, books and even the stars are all brought into
