Analysis of the theme of Fahrenheit 451The theme of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 can be seen from different angles. First of all, Bradbury's novel conveys an anti-censorship message. Bradbury believed that censorship was a natural consequence of an overly tolerant society. Once a group objects to something someone has written, that book is edited and censorship begins. Soon, another minority group objects to something else in the book, and it is edited again until eventually the book is banned altogether. In Bradbury's novel, society has evolved to the point that it is illegal to own all literature. The books can no longer be read, not only because they might offend someone, but because they raise issues that often lead to revolutions and even anarchy. The intellectual thought that comes from reading books can often be dangerous, and the government does not want to tolerate this danger. Yet this philosophy, according to Bradbury, completely ignores the benefits of knowledge. Yes, knowledge can cause disharmony, but in many ways knowledge of the past, recorded in books, can prevent man from making similar mistakes in the present and future. The society Bradbury imagined in Fahrenheit 451 is often compared to Huxley's Brave. New World. While both works certainly have an anti-government theme, this is not the central idea of ​​Bradbury's novel. As Beatty explains in Part One, government control over people's lives was not a conspiracy of dictators or tyrants, but a consensus of ordinary people. People are feeble-minded; they don't want to think for themselves and solve the world's troubling problems. It's much easier to live a life of isolation and illusion, a life where television is reality. More importantly, Fahrenheit 451 is an anti-apathy, anti-addiction, and anti-television message. The people in the novel are afraid of themselves. They fear the thought of knowing, which leads them to depend on others (government) to think for them. Since they don't think, they need something to occupy their time. This is where television comes in. A whole series of problems arise from television: violence, depression and even suicide.