Books are burned instead of using them to learn like schools in modern society. As stated previously their technology also has more limits than today’s society not letting them have accessibility to information. Although Fahrenheit's society has differences in limitations on information, they also show similarities to today's society today. This can be shown in the banning compared to the burning of books. In today's society there are books that are banned because of not being appropriate to modern society.
American people resort to “more speech not enforced silence” in seeking to resolve our differences in values, sensibilities, and offenses. Censorship has restricted newspapers, television, radio, etc. by not allowing them the right to free speech. “59 percent of Americans say people should be able to express even deeply offensive views, while 40 percent said government should prevent people from engaging in hate speech, with partisan and racial divides characterizing the results” (Friedersdorf). Society will always differ over how we should and should not publicly post what we choose, the government also gets involved in this which takes away some of our amendment rights.
In society, the government has shown that books were not a priority to the people and their lives. So they banned books from being used. This affected their actions and feelings towards people and other things. But when Montag met Clarisse, it changed how he viewed the government and its actions. Throughout the whole book, it has shown that his feeling regarding books did change.
It also creates bad self-image and feelings of guilt that can haunt persons throughout their lives. Pornography and hate speech, he claims, cause nowhere near as much harm as political and religious speech. His conclusion is that we do not want to ban these forms of speech and the harm principle, therefore, casts its net too far. Kateb 's solution is to abandon the principle in favor of almost unlimited
When we start acknowledging the fact that we are individuals and that people don 't come in groups we will start to understand not to judge others as groups and not to judge all around. Losing labels that we put on others is also a problem with stereotyping in our society that we can easily fix and stop. The media is one of the hugest influences on stereotyping now in our society so if the media showed more positive and a more true impressions of the different demographics like religions,race, and sex people wouldn 't have a certain perception of others. One of the biggest things that might take a bit longer
Throughout history, there have been many controversies concerning books causing them to either be challenged or straightforwardly banned. For a lot of these books, they are banned in certain regions due to viewer discretion, such as the case with the mature topics noted in J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a picaresque novel by Mark Twain, however, is generally distinguished as a racist, due to diction, and for that reason one of the most challenged books of all time. Despite the negative connotation surrounding banned books, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, their people who will argue the book's impact on the world.
In both modern world and in Fahrenheit 451, there are books, but, in the two different societies, book are also viewed as opposites. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, books are viewed as a danger. In this society where the government has most of the control, book are scarce, only found in homes of people brave enough to risk their lives for these books. If the citizens refuse to leave their homes that hold even one book, they will be burned with the books, with no mercy. “Do you ever read the books you burn?” He laughed.” That 's against the law!” “Oh.
The loss of passion for news Why people have to care about news? Is there any loss if we don’t care about news? Now more and more people they won’t know what is happening in the world when you are asking them. They stop caring the world, so that will affect our society become worse and worse. The disadvantage about the loss of passion for news like they stop to learn new things, some people become ignorant, economy of the country will step forward and stay in the same place.
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them, I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist” (Flood). Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, that are considered obscene, politically acceptable, or a threat in security.
When these tasteless novels get so much exposure majority of conservative classes start viewing literature in general as obscene and immoral. This results in banning of literature, censorship or on a lower level stopping children to read. This has a negative impact on the sale of good literature. As a result of which writing is seen to be a hobby rather than a profession. Despite this there are a lot of authors striving to be heard.