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Bradbury's work focuses on an extraordinary range of intellectual, social, and cultural issues. Combining science fiction with social criticism, Bradbury exhibits a skeptical attitude toward technocratic societies and employs a romantic conception of the human imagination.
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Several of Bradbury's works have been made into television series or motion pictures, perhaps the most notable movie adaptation being Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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| Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 deals with the rise of a totalitarian society that controls thought by burning books, which ignite at 451 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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In addition, throughout Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury uses imagery of hands, making them significant reflectors of conscience. The hands of the misguided are deceptively calm, reflecting the complacency of self-righteousness.
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As the novel opens, "fireman" Guy Montag joyously goes about his job of burning down a house found to contain books, and Bradbury describes Montag's hands with ironic majesty.
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According to Bradbury, "his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history" (3). This early in the story Montag does not yet recognize the true destruction of his profession; indeed, he finds it "a pleasure to burn" (3). Montag's conscience is blithely clear--or perhaps pathetically blank-and his self-confident, self-aggrandizing hands are a reflection of this emptiness.
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Montag, however, has from time to time been taking books from the forbidden libraries he burns. When we finally witness this, Montag's hands reflect the unacknowledged dictates of conscience.
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Fahrenheit 451 is based on a series of short stories Bradbury wrote in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The story revolves around a futuristic society--a book-burning totalitarian state--in which the written word is banned by the government. In order to enforce the law, government "firemen" round up all the books they can find and burn them, daring any citizen to stand in their way. A group of rebels eventually decides to memorize entire works of literature and philosophy in an attempt to preserve their culture and history, believing it to be the only way to outsmart their despotic leaders. The rebels succeed in memorizing hundreds of written works, but the irony lies in their sacrifice of their own individual identities to become the books committed to memory.
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| Fahrenheit 451 fans watching widescreen TVs are sure to think back to the book's central character, Guy Montag. The fireman—which in this case means a book burner—begins to wonder why he's burning books to pay for a living room featuring three wall-sized televisions, with his wife pressuring him to buy a fourth. |
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| As everyone who's ever loved the book (or the 1966 movie starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner) knows, Guy Montag eventually gives up burning books and considers joining a secret community of book-lovers who "become" their books by memorizing them to pass them down to future generations. |
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Bradbury has said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a typewriter in the basement of UCLA's Powell Library and that his original intention in writing the book was to show his great love for books and libraries.
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Summary: The world of Fahrenheit 451 has many disadvantages, if we are not careful, our world could eventually lead to something like it. It is important that our society have the least amount of censorship as possible, that way we can keep our expression and our individuality at hand.
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| The censorship in Fahrenheit 451 seemed to have started among the people of their society. The people were tired of being depressed and unhappy, so they started to take the things that were making them this way, out of their lives. They started with books; censoring which ones couldn't be read and which ones made people think and contemplate things |
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| The censoring bad things eventually turned into not having books at all. The government took all sources of unhappiness and replaced them with things that prevented them from thinking. |
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comparing the censorship to now!
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| The society in Fahrenheit 451 had a mass amount of censorship, unlike the world we live in. However, our society also has censorship. School systems ban books from libraries, movies bleep out forms of expression, newspapers and other sources of media are all censored to what the public is allowed to know and what we are left in the dark about; all of these things show censorship. |
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"It [is] a pleasure to burn. It [is] special to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed." Part 1, pg. 3
"'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.'" Part 1, pg. 51 |
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| life experinecs comparison to novel |
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| He also drew upon life experiences; it was the adventures and the excitement of his childhood and adolescence that he caputured in his stories. His writing reacted to political situations (Fahrenheit 451 being partly a reaction to Hitler and McCarthyism), and explored his desire for a better life. |
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Many ways exist to ban books. Our county has a group which reads the questionable book and determines whether its educational value exceeds the weight of the objections against it. However, schools can ban books without this lengthy procedure.
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| In 1979, one of Bradbury’s friends showed him an expurgated copy. Bradbury demanded that Ballantine Books withdraw that version and replace it with the original, and in 1980 the original version once again became available. |
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| Another reason books were banned was because of increase in technology, and the public's lack of respect for older forms of media. "But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three dimensional sex magazines of course" (Bradbury 57-58). The majority of the public only wanted simplistic pleasures. They only wanted physical happiness, which is achieved by the pornographic magazines, now enhanced because of technology. |
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| Belifs in community of novel |
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| The people of Bradbury's world believe that well-read people have an advantage over those who do not read. According to the masses everyone should be equal |
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| Over the past two decades the liberals have decried this top-down censorship: the attempts of Republicans to kill the National Endowment for the Arts. The controversies in the 1980s over Robert Mapplethorpe exhibits. Attorney General Ed Meese's crusade against pornography at the same time. Rudy Giuliani's attempts to ban the display of "Piss Christ" in New York during the early 1990s. All these cases became notorious for the form of "top-down" censorship that liberals associate with oppression. |
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| Internet Censorship today |
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Internet censorship comes in many forms. It is as simple as a parent using an internet content filter to prevent their child from viewing certain websites, such as pornographic material, chat rooms, and subversive content. Companies often censor the internet, again using a type of internet filter, mostly to stop their employees from browsing the web instead of being productive.
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| problems with cersorship today |
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What is wrong with internet censorship if it protects young children from viewing adult material, if it blocks websites with hateful or dangerous language? Censoring the internet might be acceptable to the majority of society if this were all that it did, but trying to control the web, an entity with seemingly infinite pieces of information, cannot be done
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| Some will say yes, as children could be exposed to such coarse material. However, with the advent of child blocks and parental controls, parents have the choice to block out that which is considered unsuitable for them. Parents can also teach their children proper manners and inform them as to when certain words and phrases are deemed acceptable. |
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| One of the most important rights that is mentioned in our constitution is the right to free speech. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” |
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| When a film is put out to the public it is first reviewed by a movie rating board who then assigns the film a rating to tell people what age groups the film is suitable for and what the film contains. |
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| Music censorship has probably been the most heated topic in censorship right now. Censors claim that the lyrics and violent talk in today’s music are making kids do violent things and claiming that kids are trying to mimic what they hear their favorite musicians talking about. This is completely ridiculous. People who think that music is what is causing these problems are completely ignorant and just need a scapegoat. |
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| Freedon of speech censorship |
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| Freedom of speech and expression is one of the most important rights that we have in this country. Our forefathers knew this and acknowledged this in our great constitution which protects our rights as citizens in America. Censorship is a complete contradiction to this concept that has helped make America the greatest country in the world. If we do not stand up for our rights for free speech, someday it may be taken away all together. |
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| censorship in other novels |
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t's a typical day in 11th Grade American Lit. You are teaching about Mark Twain and decide that the students would not only enjoy but get a lot out of the Adnevtures of Huckleberry Finn The school has purchased enough books for each student to receive one, so you hand them out. Then you spend the rest of the class period discussing a very important issue: Twain's use of the 'n' word throughout the book.
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