Fahrenheit 451
March 28th, 2009 | 
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Wonderful, and still relevant, novel, 
This farenheit 451 book is absolutely amazing. It describes a time in the future where censorship prevails and minds are caged. Nobody has original thoughts; with the abolishing of books creativity was lost as well. Guy Montag, the protagonist, is a fireman (firemen burn books in this story) who has to fight to pull himself from the grip of an overpowering government and tradition, only to see that it is all useless (why teach to people who can’t understand?). The fahrenheit book shows what censorship can do to a society, and why individuals must not accept the norm without questioning its integrity and implications. Overall, read this bradbury ray book immediately and apply what you learn from it into everyday life.
By the way, ignore all of the reviewers that gave the fahrenheit 451 book a low score because they could not understand the plot and symbolism. Their comments are similar to saying Shakespeare’s works are poorly written because he uses odd vocabulary and the plot is too complex. Unfortunately, these people make of the mass of society, which is why these reviews are commonplace. (The funny thing is, the novel specifically targets these kind of people…)
Chilling Despite the Flames
Deep inside each of us is a Montag, a burner of books, a fireman who destroys rather than saves. And this is what makes bradbury 451 the masterpiece that it is: it gets at the root of censorship, at its ultimate cause, at the fear of ideas that all of us must struggle with at one point or another. In our current age of political correctness from all ends (and sometimes the middle also), Bradbury’s warning rings louder than ever: it is not books that we fear but what is inside of them, the fear that by reading something new we might find our precious ideas about life challenged. And rather than engage the ideas that make us uncomfortable, we try to isolate them, condemn them, and then destroy them.
What struck me most about fahrenheit 451 ray bradbury was how closely Bradbury’s vision matches our current world, particularly in the west. Like Mildred, we are all too willing to lose ourselves in fantasy soap-opera worlds, finding ourselves more interested in the next American Idol than in the neighbor across the street. And here is Bradbury’s real coup: it is not any particular idea that the government and we ourselves fear, but the very idea of ideas themselves. Montag and his fellow firemen are not discriminatory: they burn anything, because their employers know that whatever makes you think, whatever makes you question your shallow, empty life, whether it is pornography or Shakespeare or the Bible, is a danger to those who use ignorance to gain and hold power.
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Some ignorances are enlightening. Read the book, The Ignorance Of Shakespeare.