Martian Chronicles
The Issues of Past and Present!
If the Martian Chronicles had been written in the 1999's instead of fifty years ago, many issues and problems would change. Ray Bradbury wrote his book in 1946. In it he wrote about problems such as censorship, man's cruelty to man, and loneliness. Each issue shows up in one or two of his chronicles. All of his issues affect every one of his characters in many different ways.
Censorship is a main problem or issue today, and in the book it shows up in one of his chronicles, "Usher II". In this chronicle, a man builds a house of Usher. One man points (he was from a group that was against all forms of imagination) out, "No books, no houses, nothing to be produced which in any way suggests ghosts, vampires, fairies, or any creature of imagination." Yet in this house he saw all of these things and more.
The chronicle also brings up the issue of censoring certain books by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe. The house that is built is based on a house that is in one of Poe's books. The unimaginative man is ignorant to the facts of Edgar A. P.'s books and does not even recognize the kind of death he was about to face that was directly copied out of a book. If it were to happen today and now, the only books that would be allowed would be schoolbooks, and even those books could not contain theories.
That is the way censorship is brought up in the book. Today, however, it affects more than just books. It is used in movies, TV, news, magazines, and the Internet. Words, obscenity, and some vulgar things can be kept from the viewing audience. They can keep certain people, those seventeen and younger from seeing movies, TV, or Internet sites. In the book one character makes a point of saying, "ignorance is fatal."
Man's cruelty to man is another issue in the Martian Chronicles that is and was a problem in the real world. In the book, it shows up in three chronicles, "Ylla", "The Off Season", and "Way in the
If the Martian Chronicles had been written in the 1999's instead of fifty years ago, many issues and problems would change. Ray Bradbury wrote his book in 1946. In it he wrote about problems such as censorship, man's cruelty to man, and loneliness. Each issue shows up in one or two of his chronicles. All of his issues affect every one of his characters in many different ways.
Censorship is a main problem or issue today, and in the book it shows up in one of his chronicles, "Usher II". In this chronicle, a man builds a house of Usher. One man points (he was from a group that was against all forms of imagination) out, "No books, no houses, nothing to be produced which in any way suggests ghosts, vampires, fairies, or any creature of imagination." Yet in this house he saw all of these things and more.
The chronicle also brings up the issue of censoring certain books by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe. The house that is built is based on a house that is in one of Poe's books. The unimaginative man is ignorant to the facts of Edgar A. P.'s books and does not even recognize the kind of death he was about to face that was directly copied out of a book. If it were to happen today and now, the only books that would be allowed would be schoolbooks, and even those books could not contain theories.
That is the way censorship is brought up in the book. Today, however, it affects more than just books. It is used in movies, TV, news, magazines, and the Internet. Words, obscenity, and some vulgar things can be kept from the viewing audience. They can keep certain people, those seventeen and younger from seeing movies, TV, or Internet sites. In the book one character makes a point of saying, "ignorance is fatal."
Man's cruelty to man is another issue in the Martian Chronicles that is and was a problem in the real world. In the book, it shows up in three chronicles, "Ylla", "The Off Season", and "Way in the