Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury: Literary Analysis

“But then the world got full of eyes...books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm” (Bradbury, 54). In the book Fahrenheit 451, the author, Ray Bradbury, touches on certain subjects that are questionable. For example, the book is practically screaming the theme all throughout, which is if society chooses to abandon knowledge; it will lead to our ultimate destruction. He also included a lot of technology that wasn’t around during the time the book was published representing today’s rapid technologic advancements. Along with technology and illiteracy, Bradbury established the setting in a dystopian society where the United States is on the verge of nuclear war. Fahrenheit 451 is about a society in 2400 where knowledge has been neglected and those who still hold books are reported to the police. Once a person has been reported, firemen come to the home and burn the books as well as the structure. Bradbury seems to think that apathy towards …show more content…
The government ignores books and knowledge because it doesn’t want the people to go against their ideas and books inspire those types of ideas. The government in this book resembles a totalitarian government because it restricts and punishes free thinkers and intellects from sharing his/her thoughts. These governments see intelligent people as threats because he/she is willing to retaliate and speak their beliefs against the government. Ray Bradbury has written many works with technological advances that weren’t invented or even thought of at the time they were published. With that being said, Bradbury presented many pieces of technology that didn’t exist at the time nor were even thought of. For instance, in Fahrenheit 451, the author