Fahrenheit 451
Is it possible that a society could find itself in this position, in a world like Bradbury describes, from trying to avoid what is unpleasant and hard to think about? What parallels do you see in our world today (think school, community, state, nation, wo
Captain Beatty says “But the public, knowing what it wanted . . . It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick . . . ” (55).