I agree with the above answer concerning theme in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and would just add to one point. According to the fire captain Beatty, the problem with books isn't even so much that the futuristic society in the book doesn't want to be exposed to anything that its members disagree with (although that is true), but that they find fault with the books because the books disagree with each other.
The people in the novel are simplistic. They want to live by mottos and cliches. They don't want questions. They don't want opposing viewpoints. They want things easy and simple. They want easy and concrete answers. Books that show opposing viewpoints and dramatize the ambiguity of existence would interrupt their illusions. And they don't want that.
Does Bradbury have a point? Just watch interviews with athletes or politicians or anyone who has suffered any kind of tragedy. You may find that our society, too, lives very much by mottos and cliches and easy, concrete answers. And we aren't even burning books, yet.
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