Fahrenheit 451 Unlike Modern American Society

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Fahrenheit 451 Essay Fahrenheit 451 is unlike modern American society due to the drastic differences in overall citizen happiness, social censorship, and human connection. One of the main reasons Fahrenheit 451 is drastically different is due to the differences in the morale of the citizens we can see this when Mildred overdoses on sleeping pills (Bradbury 10) within the story and the medical technicians explain how common this is in the city which would give us an idea of how many people overdose from drugs which would result from poor lives in there oppressed civilization as opposed to the U.S which has many patriotic people that love the country and would fight for it whenever needs to be as shown in Statista where according to them 85% of Americans consider themself patriotic. …show more content…

For example, in Fahrenheit 451 you are not allowed to have books which is the central communication point for most information gathering for history, scientific language, or mathematical things. This can be represented within the book when Montag is asked if he ever reads any of the books he reads and he says “Thats against the law!” (Bradbury 8). This shows us that they have social censorship unlike the US because if it wasn't censored then there would be no need to retain information or novels from civilians of the country. The US prohibits most forms of censorship to provide a real and free unlimited range of information with the use of the 1st amendment. According to Middle Tennessee University, “Censorship occurs when individuals or groups try to prevent others from saying, printing, or depicting words and

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