In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 1953 members of society focus only on entertainment immediate gratification and speeding trough life If books are found they are burned and their owner is arrested If the owner refuses to abandon the books he or she often dies burning along with them People with interested outside of technology and entertainment are viewed as strange as possible threats The authors three warnings to contemporary society are technology mass entertainment replaces literacy and fa
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an unspecified future time in a hedonistic and rabidly anti intellectual America that has completely abandoned self control and bans the reading of books Anyone caught owning them is at the minimum confined in a mental hospital and has the books confiscated and burned At the maximum the penalty is a sentence to immediate death People are now only entertained by in ear radio and an interactive form of television The protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman certain that h