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FAHRENHEIT 451

Lakeside Theatre (University of Essex)

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Guy Montag is a ‘fireman’. His job? Destroy the most illegal of commodities: the printed book. Never questioning the resulting devastation of his actions, Montag returns each day to his bland life and his bland wife, who spends all day with her television "family". However, when he meets his eccentric new neighbour, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past free of fear and a present lived within the wonderous ideas within books, he is forced to abandon everything he thought he knew. After Clarisse’s mysterious disappearance, Montag must follow this new path of preserving literature on his own; but where will this path take him and what must be endured along the way? Ray Bradbury’s acclaimed novel, Fahrenheit 451, is set in a dystopian world recovering from atomic war, where freedom of speech is banned. Written in 1953, during the wave of book burnings under the House Un-American Activities Committee and the ensuing fear within the US, the novel is an urgent call against censorship and a horrifying prediction of what may happen when reading literature and having ideas becomes a crime.

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