The deep glow and radiant, orange flames relieve society of all problems, obligations, and offenses. In an attempt to create a utopia, leisure and free thought does not exist. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the government dilutes society by setting flame to anything that may seem offensive to even the smallest minority group. Beatty, the fire captain, explains the common mentality of the public.
             Colored people don't like Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book...Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too...Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fires is clean." (59)
             The fire's bright flames correct the problems in the community and release the sense of responsibility. In creating a perfect society, burning books and houses that hide them becomes common. People's ability to think as an individual diminishes and those who cannot be manipulated become outcasts.
             While trying to create the ideal society, personal freedoms decrease, including the simple pleasure of reading. Flames attack the books page by page and the fire spreads to the houses that conceal them. Firemen, such as Montag, act as the clean-up crew that dump the kerosene and strike the match. Reading brings about intellect and imagination which threaten society. Books contain varying opinions and often contradict each other. Instead of accepting these minor discrepancies, society finds it easier to burn and destroy them. Books represent conflict and evil. If anyone reads or hides them, the alarm sounds and the flames ignite. Smoke fills the air and chokes out the attempt for individual thought. Books go up in sparkling flames and blows away in the wind. With it, the wind carries away the ashes of the consequences and responsibility. N
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