It is hard to say how this book represents its time period because it is in a fictional setting, but all the events seem to be in correlation. The society is shown to have made reading books illegal. Over the course of the story more information is gathered about how this environment was created. The people slowly started to give their interest in schooling and learning, and it lead to the citizens becoming completely mindless. It is like their minds do not develop at all from when they come into the world because they do not learn anything, and they are constantly told what to think from parlors. The people have basically no personality because everyone is told the same things, and that makes them all almost the same people. The issues they are faced with are not that important. Most of the people just do not bother themselves with anything going on in the world. When it comes to the war the people do not even think about it. Even when one woman’s husband is in the war she does not think about it. Politics are even worse. The people vote for president based entirely on meaningless physical traits.
This book signifies the world that comes when people stop thinking and give up books. It is a warning not to let this happen in real life. This world in the story came to be because the people gave up books on their own. They also stopped going to school. They just brought it entirely on themselves, and now it is on their children. The people are not thinking literally because it is too much of a burden. They let the parlors and seashells in their ears tell them what they need to know instead of them telling themselves. I do not think that a society like this will ever come in real life. I think people will not be too quick to give up thinking on their own.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 2003. Print.
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