Fahrenheit 451 - A Structured and Censored World :: Fahrenheit 451 Essays

Fahrenheit 451 - A Structured and Censored World   Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451 forces us to envision a world that is so structured and censored discountman exist not to fight fires, for all buildings are fireproof, alone instead to veer 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 chief(a) 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 volume had original freedom Because of Clarrises view of life she is branded as anti-social by her teachers and an outcast by her fellow classmates. Clarrise becomes acquainted with an other main character named Guy Montag. Montag is a fireman who deep inside does not want to live a life without having to think. Montags inner thoughts become more and more a part of him as the book progresses. Montag eventually becomes a freedom fight er of sorts when he joins a group of people who illegally hide and read books. Montags 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 epitome of laziness.   The most complex of all the characters is the fire chief Beatty. Beatty is a man who once was educated but has now turned his back on education and works to destroy it. Beatty knows what is in books but chooses not to care, not to do anything but help the destruction of books. The loss of the characters freedom to read and to think was not an act that was forced on the people but, embraced by the people. The people loved the idea of not having to think anymore. The desire to confront issues was gradually disconnected by the people. Since the desire the desire to confront issues was lost people stopped doing anything that was so called politically incorrect so as to affend no one. After a while not confronting issues became s o natural that anyone who did was considered peerless and a threat.