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This 3 page paper discusses some of the influences that led Ray Bradbury to write “Fahrenheit 451,” including the Nazi book burnings, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Cold War. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Nazi book burnings; the McCarthy "witch hunts"; and the fear of nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Discussion The main theme of the novel is book burning;
that is, repression and control. Burning books is an extreme form of censorship, and the people who do it want to make sure that those they oppress have no way
of accessing the thinking of others. If they did, they might begin to wonder about their own government, and why it was treating them so harshly. They might even begin
to wonder if they could do something about it. Controlling peoples thinking and ideas is a way to control them. The Nazis knew this, which is why they had huge
bonfires of "banned" books. The Nazis began burning books just months after they took power (Furlong, 2003). "The SA cordoned off the main courtyard of Berlins Humboldt University, stacking high
piles of books by Jewish, communist, or degenerate authors, and then setting light to them" (Furlong, 2003). Elfrieda Bruenning, who was 93 when Furlong wrote his article and remembers the
Nazi regime vividly, notes that German author Heinrich Heine said "if you burn books today, you burn people tomorrow. But we never imagined what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning
was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and watched the burning with horror" (Furlong, 2003). She says that all the authors they had loved,
read and studied were suddenly supposed to be worthless-and she and her friends couldnt understand it (Furlong, 2003). Among the authors burned were Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka-now mainstays of
college courses all over the world. Bradbury did understand why they were thrown on the fire: burning books is equivalent to burning ideas, and that helps to control people. Fear
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