Fahrenheit 451

In this world of Fahrenheit 451 the people are oppressed not only by the threat of violence but by may forms of mind deteriorating entertainment to prevent any free thought or expression. Guy Montag, is a fireman by every sense of the word. He deals with fire, he uses it to burn all books and banned forms of literature. Instead of books, people use wall sized televisions and drive dangerously fast to keep them from thinking too much. They listen to the government run radio and are constantly barraged by oppressive propaganda, they push the idea that people are happy and they are content with their existence yet Guy Montag realizes that he and everyone else is living a lie. Everyone is living a lie and the workings of the government has left countless as shells of what used to be a human being, all of them devoid of intelligence, feelings and creativity. Guy, not wanting to end up as emotionally and mentally dead, has to find a way to survive his oppressive existence and through his story the reader is exposed as to how freedom can be smothered out of existence.