Life Controlled by Media Results in False
Knowledge
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel where the society eliminates unhappiness. The fire department starts fire instead of putting it out, because they burn books. The author is trying to show that life prohibited by community results in false knowledge of ourselves. Not everyone feels that way. So, some people go against the law and read books. Ray Bradbury shows the readers that there is always something wrong with perfect society.
The society dislikes books because it makes them unhappy. For example, "Mrs. Phelps was crying. The others in the middle of the dessert watched her crying grow very loud as her face squeezed itself out of shape" (Bradbury 100). This shows that when Montag read a poem to Millie's friends, the misery of the poem got one of them to cry. This is because they don't know how to accept the truth and grief. In addition, Beatty said "You can't rid yourselves of all the odd ducks in just a few years" (Bradbury......
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