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The novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, was published in 1953 not long after World War II had ended. Bradbury had written a short story about Guy Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 in 1951. Bradbury used this novel that was written as a science fiction to criticize the society of his time, and to warn of a possible future. The basis of the censorship in the novel is based on the anti-intellectualism pushed forward by Hitler and the Nazi regime. Another important factor, even more important to Bradbury than the anti-intellectualism of the Nazi’s, that led Bradbury to write Fahrenheit 451 was the red scare and McCarthyism in the United States. During the time period in which Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 the Nazi’s had imposed on Germany and the countries they held control of a censorship in whi