... government to make people ignorant to the issues surrounding ones life, and to show that censorship does more harm than good. The censorship depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is shown in many different forms. (1) Bradbury uses certain characters to represent certain parts of censorship, and shows how each is used in a negative ... even aware of why he does things. It is almost like his hands are acting by themselves. These actions, such as when he finds himself setting his supervisor on fire, can be quite awful, but they also represent his deepest desires to rebel against the status quo and fin...

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