However, they now have to look for an alternative means of entertainment. By burning books, they intend to keep people happy, or so they assume.įor a long time, people have known that the only way to get entertained is to read. Books also highlight issues in history that would have been forgotten in addition to making people ask too many questions on the status quo. This kind of strict rule is set because society believes books are the root of all social classes. In order to retain their relevance, firemen burn houses of any person found to own books.
He imagines a country in which all houses are fireproofed, rendering firemen like Guy Montag jobless. Area of focusīradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is all about an innovative America. Was this what Ray Bradbury foresaw in Fahrenheit 451? All would be conjectures without reading through. One begins to wonder why a writer would think of such a theme that sends through the ideas of destroying books for whatsoever reason? Was it for real or literary? In any case, the fall in reading culture nowadays can be interpreted to mean that books have been “burnt” by other sources of information and entertainment such as radio, television, and most especially social media. He starts as a competent and proud fireman, whose work is to burn the books and houses of those found to go against the law forbidding the reading of books.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic literary work that tells the story of a protagonist Guy Montag.
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