Censorship In Fahrenheit 451

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury brushes over many universal concepts of life. Some of these concepts can show us many things about our own society, and the way we, as a people, are headed.

In Fahrenheit 451, one of the major concepts is Censorship. In the novel, reading and owning books is illegal. Bradbury doesn't give a clear explanation as to why such extreme censorship exists. Instead he refers to many causes. Loud music, Fast cars, and entrancing television sets, create a society that's too overloaded on stimuli to have time to sit down and think. Bradbury gives a brief description on how people lost interest in books over time. Explaing how books were first condensed, then people only read titles, and then