Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

How is KNOWLEDGE power? or how do we benefit from ideas and learning different points of view? Knowledge is power, awareness, understanding of how things or someone works. Knowledge is facts of what we believe or think, is the skill we learn and knowledge is the acknowledge of humankind. Without knowledge we would still be stuck in the 100 century and most of us wouldn’t live for as long as we get to live today or even live to see people on a screen for hours. Anyway knowledge benefit us in many different ways.

Literature is not only important to society, but is very important for each individual to read and understand. Literature can provide a way for people to learn more about what happened in the past and can even be a way for people to reduce stress in their lives. There are many different types of literature and each of them can be used for different reasons. You can use books to study specific topics, to relive the past, and to express yourself through writing. Literature can be written about the past, the future and even about present day society. Even if the book or novel is fiction, it still has some sort of theme that resembles a real world experience or problem. We need literature in our lives to help us develop and improve, not only as individuals, but as a society and to learn about the past.

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door…Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” –Ray Bradbury. Our world compared to Fahrenheit 451 is such a stark contrast, In our world, books are cherished above all others. In 451 books are illegal. The Firemen start fires instead of putting them out. But the only similarity between our world and there's is that technology is everywhere, it is controlling and brainwashing.

Sending kids to school knowing that they are going for educational purposes and then restricting them on what they can and cannot learn is hypocritical. Schools should be allowed to keep Fahrenheit 451 in their curriculum. Controversial issues are brought up everyday in and out of school and issues, like profanity, included in a book gives the story emotion and sets the tone. Timothy Jay, a psychologist and linguist, argues,

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. In Bradbury’s futuristic novel, violence is prevalently revealed in the society. Violence in society is aggression, cruelty, rough or injurious physical actions and treatment towards the citizens and civilization in the society, where everyone has the same theory and beliefs on the way one should act. In Fahrenheit 451, everyone is careless and relatively violent with the exception of Clarisse Maclellan who has an innocent love of people and nature. Guy Montag, who is searching for himself and happiness, progresses into a very violent character throughout the novel. Fahrenheit 451 is violent for many reasons including the

If parents book their kids so they are not use to free time, kids do not know how to use their unstructured free time when they have it. Kids that are use to always participating in an activity get use to not ever having to find something to do on their own. Kids going to school, then going to sports, and then coming home and doing homework never have time to think about what they could be doing if they did not have a busy life. If you hand a kid that is constantly on the move a ball, they might ask what they are supposed to do with it. If you hand a kid a ball that has free time, they will most likely find a game they can play using the ball. Also, kids who are never allowed free time to become bored are always focused on a structured

Think about what the world would be like if books were forbidden. Schools would be different and the world would be censored from all the history written in books. In Fahrenheit 451 that is exactly what their world is like. Guy Montag is the main character and protagonist. He worked as a firefighter, but instead of distinguishing fires he lit houses on fire if they contained books. All his life he was told that books are unacceptable and should be burned. One day he pondered on  what reading a book felt like. He started to read and that got him into some trouble. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury illustrates the idea that censoring information from people will only make people want the information more, this becomes clear to readers

Acts of terrorism are vicious and pitiless, taking the lives of innocent individuals. I believe that in order to stop these acts of rebellion, unconventional means of combating the threats are necessary, one of these being, wiretapping. In the article, Counterpoint: War on Terror and Wiretaps, the authors explain the controversial issue regarding the government tapping our technology. Although the process may seem excessive and invading to some, it will help save the lives of American citizens. It seems only obvious that someone should care more about the safety of their loved ones, than their text messages being exposed to the government. In the book, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, it discusses a society in which the government

May 10, 1933; Nazi Germany attacked Jewish intellectuals. Claiming they needed to “purify” the German language and literature, universities to be German nationalism. A symbolic significance to May 10, university students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books. Within past history in the book Fahrenheit 451 the resemblance of the two stories relate to how the governments wanted to banish books due to a new education, different than what should be taught (general information) as well as, people rebelling once learning this information.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we can see a lot of things wrong with the society, things that most people think could happen to us, but is it really that unrealistic? Ray Bradbury didn't think so when he wrote it because he was writing about his own time period, shortly after WWII, but the themes he wrote about are still present today. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury criticizes illusion of happiness, oppression, and loss of self, not only his fictitious society, but our society in real life, too.

A world consumed by technology and completely controlled by the government in every aspect of life. This way of living is something that many people fear and try to stray away from. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, such a censored lifestyle has become the norm. Even though this novel was written over 60 years ago, the connections and predictions Bradbury made have been shown to become truer day by day. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury creates an interesting dystopian novel that highlights the culture, characters, and theme that serves as a warning to future readers.

Fahrenheit 451 has a society that has many differences from ours. In the book’s society, firemen start fires instead of putting them out. However, Fahrenheit 451’s society also have similarities to modern day society. In the book’s society, people don’t read. Instead they choose to watch television a lot. In modern society, less people are enjoying amazing novels and sit, watch television or play video games all day.

Montag rested his head on the tree next to him, his deep, heavy sighs playing a quiet song in his head.

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without the freedom to read books as you please? One possible answer to this question can be ironically found by reading Fahrenheit 451. This book has a futuristic view of how technology could potentially take over society, creating less and less of a need for physical books until they are eventually banned and all the ideas that come from them are thought to be ‘evil’. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the society loses its power and purpose because individuals lose their ability to live a full life involving relationships, meaningful activities, and rich ideas.

Over the course of the film, symbols and instances of censorship have made themselves more than clear. Many of the books shown burning—such as “Madame Bovary and Lolita”—were, in their own histories, victims of censorship. The entire idea of book burning, in fact, is a form of censorship utilized by cultures throughout the course of history, notably the book burnings that took place in communist Russia, China, and Nazi Germany (Bradbury)—the numerous documented book burnings at the hands of the Nazis were the “most emotive and probably the readiest point of censorship debates in this period” (Harrison 55). Because in the world of Fahrenheit 451 “every written word is considered inherently censorable, and inherently subversive . . . every book represents a challenge to authority” (Harrison 56). The book people are created in order to overcome this censorship and stand as “political radicals” (Harrison 57) and that, by removing themselves from an oppressive society also remove themselves from the “dynamics of censorship” and from the “political ground on which anti-censorship