Fahrenheit 451 | Historical Climate and Development of Fahrenheit 451
In the following essay, Edward E. Eller explores the historical climate that helped create Fahrenheit 451 and its protests against mindless conformity and censorship.
Bradbury developed Fahrenheit 451 during the late 1940s and published it in 1950 just after World War II and during America's growing fear of communism. During World War II, Hitler and the Nazis had banned and burned hundreds of thousands of books. However, the Nazis went further; using new technologies, they attempted one of the largest mind control experiments in history by setting up state controlled schools and a propaganda machine which censored all ideas and information in the public media. To make matters worse,...
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