Censorship In Literature, By Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was born on the 22nd of August 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, U.S. He died at the age of 91 after leaving the world with his imagination, life experiences and influences on paper, on the 5th of June, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Bradbury had three siblings, one of his older twin brothers died before he was even born, however his younger sister died while she was still an infant when we was just seven, so Bradbury barely grew up with his siblings by him side. When Bradbury was a child he enjoyed living in Waukegan, he was a huge fan of magicians, and used to read a lot especially from the genres Adventure and Fantasy Fiction.(3) When Bradbury was twelve years old he decided to become a writer, he said that he wanted to “live

In Bradbury’s case it is the practice of examining books due to his love for literature and reading. Bradbury wrote so passionately and urgently about the society he is in and about how he pictures society to be in the future, like for example his famous novel “Fahrenheit 451”. Bradbury’s biggest panic about censorship was not crushing the governments laws but from the people themselves. The kind of censorship that bothered him most was the insidious censorship that is from distraction or pressure from special interest groups. Bradbury was always concerned that technology was taking over their society or societies in general, surprisingly he was concerned before all the technology we have now even existed, and so how concerned would he be if he saw our societies now? Bradbury had a theory about technology taking over his society, he thought that in the future their society would turn into a dystopian one causing books to be banned and become illegal. Ray wrote a short story about his theory and then turned it into a well known novel called “Fahrenheit 451”. Basically, censorship inspired Bradbury to write his successful novel “Fahrenheit 451”.