Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about censorship and how the government implemented it. ... Mildred lives the kind of life that the government wants all of their citizens to live. ... He hardly reveals his life until the end of the book where he admits that he had a library full of books that were banned. ... I would be interested to know why Ray Bradbuy changed the title. ...
In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's novel 1984, there are very common similarities in both contrast and comparison of themes and I intend to learn from these themes the effects of governments the control its people and how every society has flaws and how they can be changed, and the themes that are displayed in both novels are technology, control of information and history, and the dangers of totalitarianism, but at the same time in 1984 there is language as mind control, and in Fahrenheit 451 there is knowledge versus ignorance. ... Montag understands this ...
In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian America, books are forbidden. ... Airstrip One seems to be in much worse condition than Bradbury's imagination of future America; it is described as being desolate and dingy. ... Winston has memories of his life before the Revolution happened and The Party took over. Montag, on the other hand, has only known a life of burning books. ... After this meeting, Montag begins to question his life as a fireman. ...
