Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1953. The novel is about a society that is repressed by a dictatorship, which makes people can not think, thanks to education, culture, media of communication and the memory of history that the dictatorship is repressing and controlling and is creating an ignorant society that does not process all the information that is given to them:

"People do not talk about anything. Oh they will talk about something! No, nothing. They cite a series of cars, clothes or swimming pools and they say it's great. But they all say the same thing and nobody has an original idea. " (page 40)

This society is very repressed in terms of the sense of education, this is because the education

One hour of TV class, one hour of basketball, baseball or racing [...] But you must know that we never ask questions or, at least, most do not; they do nothing but throw you the answers. " (page 37)

As a result of this, the system means that from a young age, people do not even think about what they are doing, distracting them with sports or other types of interactive activities so that when they grow up they do things without reasoning. Culture also influences the numbness of society, since it has a non-literary culture, in which books are banned and burned because the system forbids them because it says they are reasoned and reflected. According to Beatty, people look for other types of interests instead of books, and take advantage of this to burn books because people do not care. Art as well as culture influences society, because the only type of art that could be seen was abstract, so that people do not reason works and do not understand them.

"Everything is abstract. It's the only thing there is now. My uncle says it was different before. A long time ago the paintings sometimes said something or even represented people [...] ". (page