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5 Feb 21st, 2001 

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Farenheit 451 is one of the seminal books on state censorship and the creation of an artificial utopia. It ranks alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World.

Farenheit 451 is about Guy Montag, a fireman - but not in any conventional sense of the word. In this bleak future, firemen are employed not to put out fires (all the houses are now fire-proof), but instead to start fires... to burn books.

Books are evil. They spread malcontentment. The make people corrupt. Television is all that is good - people can be spoon fed their opinions, their emotions. Pleasure is immediate, thought is a waste of time.

When Montag starts to find that he wants to read books he is scared. He is scared about the mechanical hound that will chase him down. He is scared that his boss Captain Beatty will come around and burn his house like he has done to others.

It is a parable of state domination and the ultimate in censorship, and is a warning to us all about complacency and letting other people think for us.
 

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Paradis 02.07.2004 19:16

What, no comments! Oh well, someone has to. Nice review, I like 451 a lot :)

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