Fahrenheit 451: A Censored And Structured World

Fahrenheit 451: A Censored and Structured World


 David Finch August 30, 1996


     Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 forces us to envision a world that is so

structured and censored fireman exist not to fight fires ,for all buildings are

fireproof, but instead to burn books. Fahrenheit 451 is a horrific account of

what could happen in an all too close future when society carries "political

correctness" to its extreme.

     One of the primary characters that one meets in Fahrenheit 451 is a

young girl named Clarrise has been raised to live the way things once were, in a

time where people had true freedom Because of Clarrise's view of life she is

branded as anti-social by her teachers and an outcast by her fellow classmates.

Clarrise becomes acquainted with another main character named Guy Montag. Montag

is a fireman who deep inside does not want to live a life without having to

think. Montag's inner thoughts become more and more a part of him as the book

progresses. Montag eventually becomes a freedom fighter of sorts when he joins a

group of people who illegally hide and read books. Montag's wife Mildred on the

other hand prefers not to have to think, but rather to allow others to think

for her to simply say "yes I agree." Mildred is the epito
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