Sunday, October 16, 2011

Fahrenheit 451


In the book Fahrenheit 451, author Ray Bradbury expresses his imagine of the future society. In Bradbury's imagination, we can tell that Bradbury believes the government is going to dominate their citizen by authority and power. In the society which created by Bradbury, books are prohibited. Fire is setting up by firemen to burn books instead of to put out a fire. Government pay a great effort to prevent their citizen become intelligent, government worries if people becoming smart, they will question and judge which might eventually led a revolt. The government attempt to edify its people that books are weapons, books is evils. In school, student will only be taught what the government wants them to know. Students spend most of the time for playing sport, relaxing, or watching TV shows and movie clips. To ensure the public would obey the law and the idea of books are evil. The government also releases some cases to show their people that arrested and death are the consequences for disobey.

This is why throughout the book it is obvious to notice that most of the people within the society are conformity. Most of them will not question, they will not think, they will not care or pay attention to anyone else. Though people were physically living along with their family, but they are actually living individually- they are all addicted with the family that exist on the soap opera that play on the TV-wall.

Bradbury suggests government is getting intense to control the people. Government is blind for power. Bradbury creates the character, Montag (- the rebel fireman who tries to enlighten people that books are good, and attempt to bring books back to the society.) to present that the coercion of any authority might help to obtain a peace among its region's surface area, but ITS INNER PART IS POSSIBLE TO BE A SUBVERSION WORLD!


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