Constitution


 * We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone // made //equal.**

In this allusion, Beatty says that people need to be made equal, or people will be unhappy. He also claims that is the fireman's job to keep the equality by burning, because books show someone's inequalities. Captain Beatty misinterprets the Constitution and Declaration of Independence because instead of letting people have the right to the pursuit of happiness, he forces people to be happy by taking all the unhappiness.

We believe that Bradbury used this to emphasize his point that eveyone should be the same and no one should be different. Everyone has to dread the unfamiliar.



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