Fahrenheit 451 Censorship

Censorship and its effects are the heart of Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. In the novel we learn of a future world that seems quite possible given the way the world is today. Author Bradbury shows how the banning of books, and thus free thought, can have dramatic and disastrous effects on society. He especially highlights how the government controls how people think and feel.

The books in Fahrenheit 451were banned for several reasons. First off, many books were banned because they weren’t politically correct.

“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity Montag. Peace Montag” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 59).

If one group of people, no matter how small, didn’t like a book, it would be banned. This is already starting to happen today. For example, many schools are banning the Harry Potter books because Christians don’t like the “satanic” messages in them. Jack Zipes states that this contrasts Bradbury’s views. He claims that Bradbury believes that the books are heroes and that

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