The essay for studying by Lukas: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Of course, such attitude to literature is not a goal, but a means with the help of which a society of people, who can be manipulated and with no place for personality, is created.

The captain convinces Montag: "We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against."

If you accept such a society model, a danger coming from books becomes clear: "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?"

In 2012 Google offered to standardize a new status code of the protocol HTTP - HTTP 451 that will warn the Internet users that a requested page exists but unavailable for legal reasons. The code was approved by the Internet Engineering Steering Group in 2015 and added to the HTPP standard in 2016. In the notification about the new code, a gratitude to Ray Bradbury was expressed

The wife is absorbed by a series world and now tells enthusiastically about a new TV idea: she received a script of a new “soap opera” with missing lines that viewers should write themselves. Three living room walls in the house are huge TV screens, and Mildred insists on spending some money and fixing the fourth TV wall because in that case there will be a full illusion of the conversation with TV characters.

The society, which is unable to think, is easily manipulated by a government, that is why under the totalitarian regime, the literature is forbidden by the law and has to be immediately destroyed.

The society, described in the anti-utopia of Ray Bradbury, receives information from the interactive TV screens that fill all the house walls, from radio and other means that the government uses for the mass propaganda.