first amendment of the United States Constitution. Free Societies believe every human

being has the right to hold his beliefs and speak his opinions and to verbalize his own

thoughts. If indiscriminate censorship is allowed in our world today, it would eliminate a

person’s freedom to think differently. No one would ever disagree because everyone

would believe in the same ideas. As a result of book burning and censorship in Ray

Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, the nation is populated with numbed people who

cannot express their individuality, or beliefs. There is no hope for a society which

allows unrestrained suppression of beliefs or censorship to take place.

Governments which impose censorship believe that if they allow people to read

books, it will lessen their control over the populace. They understand that if people are

introduced to new ideas, it will allow each person to think individually and by doing this

not to blindly follow the rules of the government. While the government knows this to

be the truth, they often say that they censor books because the books themselves, or

the ideas they contain, are harmful and

who are truly happy because they will not be concerned about expressing themselves.

will spark his conscience and triggers his morality, his sense of right and wrong. “It’s not

death of humanity.” As the novel closes, Montag is walking to the city, now destroyed by the bomb, to

students play sports and learn nothing. Fast driving is encouraged, and pedestrian are

having their own opinions; he can keep them ignorant while he has the knowledge they

itself might as well be discarded as burnable trash. “ ( p. ) In the novel, the

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