Themes

Throughout the novel, different themes have been introduced such as:

Censorship:

The novel takes place in a futuristic city of the United States, during this era books are prohibited, and there is a totalitarian government in which everything everyone does is controlled by the government. There are two main causes for the lack of books: 1. Lack of interest: in which the people pay more attention to television and radio than reading books, also since it is a place where everything is moving very fast, the people doesn’t have any time to think about anything. 2. The people who is “afraid” of books:  This kind of people doesn’t like books in any way, they just follow the law even if it means being an ignorant for the rest of their life. "We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon." (Pg 28)

https://derechosdigitales.org/8125/ecuador-copyright-weapon-censorship/

Knowledge:

Faber and Clarisse are two of the characters who are all about the knowledge that books brings and also that expierence brings no matter what the society says. Throughout the novel, Montag is constantly fighting with himself to whether choose ignorance or find a way to make knowledge something more important during this time. "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." (Pg 24)

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/innovation/researchinthecreativeeconomy/ketimeline/

Ignorance:


Society during this era was against knowledge, and the only thing that mattered was that everybody was equal and those who were different were dangerous for the people. The goal of the firemen was to destroy all sources of knowledge (books) and promote sameness among the people. “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.” (Pg 49)

https://prezi.com/coopci2bxyms/fahrenheit-451/

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/themes.html
http://www.secret-satire-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ray-Bradbury-Fahrenheit-451.pdf