In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury warns society about the dangers of censorship, anti-social elements, and technology. Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 during the time of the 50-year war known as the Cold War and his novel reflects the state that communism would create if it reached a Western country. His thoughts on communism were reflected in the way knowledge was treated in the novel, namely that it would never have been preserved and that interpersonal relationships between citizens would have been suppressed by mind-destroying propaganda to create a robotic state of unconditional loyalty. Censorship is defined as the act of hiding or removing something in order to ensure that it is never seen by a certain audience. Censorship in the novel consists of massive burnings of books carried out by firefighters in civilian homes which hide the books. Antisocial elements are visible throughout the novel as citizens interacting with each other never have meaningful conversations or express feelings. Unchecked technology is another concern that Bradbury expresses concern about and presents as a danger, the most terrifying of these being the robot dogs that firefighters use to punish civilians who break the law. Fahrenheit 451 is about a firefighter named Guy Montag who throughout his life followed the mass culture of ignorance that most citizens followed and was simply a law-abiding citizen who did his work. Although he is a firefighter, he does not put out fires but starts them in an attempt to burn illegal books hosted by the society's readers. At the end of the novel, Montag kills the antagonist, his boss Beatty, and finds a group of homeless intellectuals who are in the middle of a paper... reading them. Bradbury also warns against anything anti-social that can affect society, such as an insensitive human being who cannot express their thoughts because the first step in a culture of ignorance is to have no empathy towards each other the others. Bradbury's biggest fear is how uncontrolled technology could affect society. It first examines how shellfish and television produce propaganda that encourages no thought since people have no idea what they really want and the government takes advantage of people's lack of security to effectively control them . Mechanical Dogs were created to show readers that uncontrolled technology can become something that can only be dangerous to society for no reason other than destruction, such as nuclear bombs. Works Cited Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 Grammer is a web destination from the Kendall Hunt publishing company. March 16 2014