Fahrenheit Essay - Censorship Eliminates offense

Amy Beladia

Mrs. Sweeney

English 10 honors

29 September 2016

Censorship Eliminates Offense

    Censorship will eventually remove everything to prevent offending anyone. “Fahrenheit 451”, a novel by Ray Bradbury, is about a future society that bans all reading material. The job of firemen is to keep the fires at 451 degrees, the temperature that books burn. This is an example of censorship.  Censorship will eventually demolish everything to obstruct offending people by creating nothing to disagree or argue about, destroying all knowledge, and forbidding the creation or use of information by enforcing censorship laws.

    By creating nothing to oppose of, censorship will ultimately remove everything to avoid affronting everyone. “We haven’t any books”(Bradbury 34). “Montag gazed beyond them to the wall with the typed lists of a million forbidden books”(Bradbury 34). Because books are forbidden to be read or created, knowledge is forbidden. With knowledge being forbidden, there are no opposing or argumentative creations. Since knowledge and literature, like the Bible, theories, and philosophies are forbidden to be created or read, disagreement between people, in which may lead to offense, won’t occur. People may argue and get offended of other things, besides knowledge, such as the election or t.v shows, which are created. Although, this will change once these things are also eliminated and nothing opposing is created. As a matter of fact, by creating nothing antagonist, censorship will eventually remove everything to prevent people to be exasperated by disagreement.

By destroying all knowledge, censorship will gradually restrain from affronting people. “We burnt an old woman with her books”(Bradbury 49). “I mean, to have firemen burn our houses and our books”((Bradbury 34). The firemen destroy literature and those who read. They censor the world by burning all things that they think create conflict, such as books or literature and people interested in them. By doing so firemen are destroying knowledge, which demolishes differences between between people and their beliefs and opinions, when reading. This censorship will restrain people from being affronted. Even though knowledge is being destroyed or censored, there are still other things that may offend people.  Although, by doing so, censorship will eventually restrict people from being offended, as knowledge is removed. Also, once everything is removed by destruction, there will be nothing offending. As a result, by impairing knowledge, censorship will eventually remove everything to prevent displeasing or provoking people.

    By prohibiting the creation or use of information, censorship will eventually eliminate