Shortage Of Books-Fahrenheit 451
Shortage of Books
"I've always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush!" exclaimed Mrs. Bowles to Montag in Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 (103). Mrs. Bowles thinks written words can make an individual really gloomy and disconsolate. Because the goal of this society is to always be satisfied, and to stay satisfied people watch TV, made up stories, which never makes them think or wonder, that is why Mrs. Bowles is convinced that poems are nasty. How does banning of books affect a whole community? Does the human civilization really differ without them? According to Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury assembles a civilization that is affected in three ways from having a lack of books: more brutality is among people, preternatural relationships cultivate, and intelligent capabilities decrease.
First, cognitive ability degenerated because of the banning of books. Visiting Faber, he said to Montag "That was the year I came......
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