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the classic science fiction novel about censorship
Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel FAHRENHEIT 451 was a response to some of the major concerns of World War II, with future society depicted as having evolved into a diet of mass media and literal sedation under a regime of censorship and book burning.
This lens explores the debate and discussion that has surrounded the novel since its publication, and also includes info about movie adaptations.
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Plot Synopsis
"Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns."
~ Montag
Bradbury titled his book after the fact that paper ignites at a temperature of 451 degrees Fahrenheit. In the story, all books have been declared illegal and so with the development of fireproof homes, firemen have the jobs of tracking down and burning books. We follow along with a fireman named Montag as he goes from being content in his life and job to realizing how little people think or feel. His wife is obsessed with her soap operas, which she watches on a wall-sized screen referred to as a "family" and not as a television. After watching an old woman refuse to leave her house when the firemen come to burn her books (she lights the fire herself and commits suicide), Montag begins to question everything he's been taught...and he starts to read.
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
the novel, written in 1953
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About Bradbury and FAHRENHEIT 451
- Ray Bradbury | Books
- Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, FAHRENHEIT 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.
- Houston Community Newspapers Online - Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'
- A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book 'Fahrenheit 451' as classroom reading material.
- Mississippi School Bans Book on Censorship
- "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury banned February 1, 1999
- Book Review: Fahrenheit 451
- Magazine written entirely by teens for teenagers.
- Article: The Failure of Fahrenheit 451, by Jeremy Smith
- In 1953, Ray Bradbury published a novel in which the burning of books presages the burning of the world. In the half century since, Fahrenheit 451 has emerged as a staple of high school and college syllabi and continues to chart best-seller lists. .... While it is most often used as a way of talking about media and censorship, Fahrenheit 451 also represents a literary mode that seeks to prevent a certain future by describing it. This mode is often -- but not always -- dystopian. It is distinguished most by a moralistic and apocalyptic state of mind.
- Fahrenheit 451
- When Fahrenheit 451 was released in 1953, censorship was a major concern in the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, was leading a witch hunt to root out all suspected Communists sympathizers in the government, as well as writers, publishers, moviemakers, and performers.
- Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- This article is about the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
~ from Fahrenheit 451
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The Book Banning Debate
This book has been repeatedly attack with banning attempts because it deals with themes of freedom of expression, censorship, freedom of thought, exchange of information, and questioning the government and authority figures. The society depicted is devoid of emotion due to usage of mood-modulating drugs, spends almost all of their free time watching tv and are encouraged to spy and report on one another.
What's your take on FAHRENHEIT 451?
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Nick Legendarystory says:
i don't think it should be banned, it would certainly open up the eyes of some ignorant people. the whole thing about how the world in F451 is a go be happy and don't care about the consequences really shows how much people rely on technology, the part where the wife ODs because she kept forgetting she already took a sleeping pill is pretty ground shattering, about how some people get sucked into that world of zombie like trance and just basically lose their humanity, and are dummed down, no, simplified to such a state of mind that it makes me feel like i should go hiking, or read a good novel. thats my PO
Posted November 24, 2009
science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk says:
Fahrenheit 451 depicts a "big brother" model of government. Of course, our democracy is quite different. I like to imagine that in the future the government of the world will become more influent, thanks to widespread information and globalization.
I also realize that many strengths are working against this, and I feel sometimes that our civilization is running along the edge of a precipice …
Posted November 02, 2009
suckonit says:
If you dont like the book, ok. but dont sit there and say it sucks, or it went past "limits". just becuase hes decided to write about how sucky our goverment is doesnt meen the books bad. thats his opinion, let him speak it.
Posted October 27, 2009
Banned Books :) says:
It is one of my favorite books. I think it is very ironic that a book looking ahead into a future that is overrun by media and causing people to live bland lives is banned. This book warns against shying away from books, banning, and over censoring....low and behold it has been banned! The irony...
Posted September 30, 2009
Natalie says:
Notice how the people who feel it should be banned can only say they were bored with it? Fahrenheit 451 is a beautiful book full of eye-opening thoughts.
Posted September 29, 2009
This book should be banned!
dont you just love irony :) says:
I think this book should be banned just because of the irony. its a book about banning books im sure the author would get a good laugh out of it. I sure did.
Posted October 15, 2009
moss says:
book sucks
Posted July 14, 2009
Unclassified says:
I understand why this book should be banned, and I clearly agree with it because this book talks about things that should not be said. Even though there is freedom of speech and you can write whatever your mind is set to, I believe that their are limits. And this book has gone beyond those limits.
Posted April 09, 2009
kasper says:
this book was a waste of time dont read it at all
Posted March 24, 2009
bob says:
This book was terrible ban it. it was so BORING
Posted February 12, 2009
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Movie Info and News
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Fahrenheit 451 on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
- Fahrenheit 451 - Movie Review and Sounds
- Review of and sounds from the movie Fahrenheit 451 starring Oscar Werner and Julie Christie from a novel by Ray Bradbury. Also includes wav sound files
- Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 - an infinity plus review
- A new movie of Fahrenheit 451 is planned ... It's a nice thought: a Hollywood movie which rails against the dumbing-down of society, and pleads for its audience to read books.
- Fahrenheit 451 (2010)
- In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, who's job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl...and begins to rebel against society.
Francois Truffaut's FAHRENHEIT 451
released in 1966
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This English-language movie was made by French-filmmaker Francois Truffant.. He barely spoke English at the time he made the film, and it was the first movie Truffant made which was shot in color. Julie Christie has a dual role, playing Linda, Montag's wife as well as Clarisse, the woman Montag meets on the train.
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