Only knowledge is dangerous," said Frank Herbert. Nowadays, lots of governments are trying to manipulate their society in order to achieve their goals by several ways, but belief at the outset. They are trying to provide a system that both society and the government are satisfied in a peaceful and clean environment. However, sometimes belief is used to conceal the knowledge with an eye to utterly manipulated society, which is the best environment for the leaders to achieve their goals, their dangerous goals leading problems in the world. .
Churches, mosques and those kinds of religious hierarchies held the manipulation, and still continuing today. But was it the buildings and the people that society believed? No, it has always been "the books". The books came to earth by god from the universe or written by divine people lead to small but necessary changes in the world. People believed in concrete and plausible ideas, which are mostly in the books. Ideas and knowledge make people question about their lives and enlightens them to see the faults in the society and the world. Besides humans as an obstacle for manipulation, the books were the most challenging barriers to lead the society in a desired way, because the books made people more "questioning" human beings, just like in the novel Fahrenheit 451, which is written by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury is describes a society where ignorance is enforced and promoted, while technology isolates and insulates the people, basically a society that is manipulated. An environment at where they burn the books, thus the knowledge, creates this manipulation in Bradbury's novel. .
As Herbert says, the manipulation of knowledge is dangerous. "Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores" (83). Faber, who is a retired English professor, speaks these words to Montag, a third-generation fireman who starts to search for meaning in the books he is supposed to be burning, as he explains the importance of the books that are being burnt in their society.
One of his most famous works is Fahrenheit 451. ... This may be where he came up with the idea of the story of Fahrenheit 451. ... The society and setting in Fahrenheit 451 are considered dystopian. ... Fahrenheit 451 was written on the verge of war. ... Fahrenheit 451 shows his views on censorship, family, and modern technology. ...
