The Importance Of Censorship In Fahrenheit 451

In “Censorship: A Personal View”, the author, Judy Blume, argues that the censorship is the biggest restrictions that turn young people away from books that they are interested in. Blume first indicates that the censorship already existed while she was a kid. She provides her personal experience as a kid toward the curiosity about adult world that she wanted to read from books, but her parents and school were very careful and selective about what books she could read. Blume then expresses her own views on censorship while she likes to write the controversial topics as a writer. She provides her own experience while many of her books were banned because the topics in her book were dangerous to young people, and the censorship proposed the alternative

Censors typically feel as though the subject material of controversial books in the high school English curriculum is too much for teenagers to handle (Shen, 2002).

Ray Bradbury’s writings were influenced by the current and past events happening in a war stricken society. Bradbury draws direct correlation between Hitler’s acts in World War II (WWII) and the acts of the “firemen” in Fahrenheit 451. This leads to the discussion of the censorship of the public in Fahrenheit 451, how this compares to the censorship enforced by Hitler in WWII, and how censorship affects the public of any society. Ray Bradbury was successful in illustrating the theme of censorship within a society under a totalitarian government using repetition, symbolism, and bildungsroman in Fahrenheit 451.

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, censorship plays a significant role in the dystopian society. The novel illustrates what it would be like if the government had full control of what society reads, watches, or communicates. According to Bradbury, this perpetuates ignorance because society blindly obeys the government. Most people in the novel are unaware of their unhappiness with society, including Mildred, Guy Montag’s wife, who almost commits suicide by mistakenly taking an entire bottle of sleeping pills. Censorship has a great effect on the personalities and knowledge of the people in the society. The society is essentially “trapped” in a toxic world filled with ignorance (Mogen 105). The government feels by controlling all forms of media, society should be cooperative and happy; however, once citizens become distracted by the consequences of owning and reading books, unhappiness and chaos occur. Reading books promotes knowledge, which encourages people to think, but because of censorship, the society has become ignorant.

Throughout the decades, certain restrictions have been shown in various forms from newspapers to television to social media. In America today, it serves as a positive outcome due to it protecting children from watching certain shows that they are too young to see. However, there are negative effects of censorship still prevalent in some parts of the world today. Censorship can block new and varied beliefs and ideas, which hides information from the public. Consequently, this is seen in the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. In the dystopian society, many of the citizens daily routine consists of the act of burning books, watching manipulative “parlor families” on television, and not being accepted for doing things out of the norm. The residents in the story are limited to only juvenile thinking and actions which makes the society less diverse and knowledgeable. Even though restrictions can be effective at times, the author expresses the sense of censorship and how it is a bad influence by revealing certain characters that are affected by the restrictive society.

Fahrenheit 451 has been censored to high school audiences and younger because of multiples controversies and mature themes within the book. The article "Fahrenheit 451." from Novels for Students (a section of Gale Virtual Reference Library) states that one reason why Fahrenheit 451 is banned is because “The book people, represented mostly by scholars, will save humanity, while ordinary people

Montag, the main character of the story, is inspired by a young girl to question law

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, critically acclaimed author Ray Bradbury asks the controversial question, what would a world where censorship of creative and differing Ideas is the norm resemble? In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury envisions a dystopian America in which not only books are censored, but personal thoughts and individuality are constrained in this world as well. Although there are many ways in which Bradbury presents and develops the themes in Fahrenheit 451, the most effective way Bradbury does this is through deft characterizations, he does this specifically through Clarisse Mcclellan and Mildred Montag

Censorship is widely used in our society to prevent us from seeing or hearing things that could disrupt our surroundings. Is it right to censor or not, its tough question and that question appears in Fahrenheit 451, The Letter, and our own day to day life's. In Fahrenheit and The Letter they were censored to better the society without knowing the true aspects of the life. Also in both stories it seems as though censorship is fear, afraid of something that could be wonderful and even knowledgeable to society.

Censorship has been around the centuries for a long time. Censorship means a suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc that can be considered a non- posing threat or threat to our society. Censorship can be impacting many children, teens, and even adults today. The main purpose Ray Bradbury illustrated “Fahrenheit 451” is to show future prosperities that everything we post on social media and also for the world to see can impact our chances to gain access to many different opportunities providing educational, video games, and more websites.

    Ray Bradbury criticizes the censorship of the early 1950's by displaying these same themes in a futuristic dystopia novel called Fahrenheit 451. In the early 1950's Ray Bradbury writes this novel as an extended version of "The Fireman", a short story which first appears in Galaxy magazine. He tries to show the readers how terrible censorship and mindless conformity is by writing about this in his novel.

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance”. – Laurie Henderson. By banning books, it can deprive children the information or the mental nourishment they will need for life.

The use of censorship to examine and eliminate elements in media that are found to be unorthodox or radical has been prevalent in society for centuries. Through censorship, ideas found to be objectionable or offensive are repressed. In his prophetic novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury denotes the common practice of government censorship of books as a suppressive and marginalizing concept for humans because it strips them of the realities, truths, and meaning behind books and deprives them the freedom to deliberate and act on them. The protagonist, Guy Montag lives in a futuristic, American society and is a ‘firemen’; a group of men that deflect the old conventional purpose of stopping fires, to creating

The Era of Censorship Ai Weiwei, a chinese contemporary artist, once said, “When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.” Young students and readers are being deprived of information that exposes them to real world discussions and situations because school districts and state officials are banning books that they seem too “unsuitable” for young students to read. In the book, Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger focuses on the theme of innocence being protected.

In today’s society, children of all ages are exposed to R-rated content that may not be suitable for their age. We as a society and as parents/guardians believe that this is based on what the parents allow for children to see and hear, but it is not, it based on the advancement of technology and how easily things can be accessed. Statistics show that over a matter of  seventeen years, roughly 1.7 million people all over the world are now involved with technology. This means that the exposure of inappropriate content has increased in a little over one decade.  In Fahrenheit 451, the author expresses what the world would be like if we were to be controlled or censored in each and everything we do. In the book, this shows how it can be harmful.