Do you know the context and significance of this quote If so explain If not explain what you think the significance of it may be Write about this in your Class Notes section Why would someone want to burn books ID: 442359
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“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well read man?” Beatty, p. 58.
Do you know the context and significance of this quote? If so, explain. If not, explain what you think the significance of it may be. Write about this in your “Class Notes” section. Slide2
Why would someone want to burn books?
Banned BooksSlide3
Censorship
What is censorship? Jot down any definitions, examples, opinions, or etc. that come to mindSlide4
When do you think people first started burning books?
China, 3
rd
century BCE is the first known incident—it has continued in many societies up until the present daySlide5
What motivates book burning?
Can be for moral, political, or religious objections to the ideas contained in the bookSlide6
Today, book burning is usually ceremonial
Book burners normally aren’t trying to destroy
every
copy of a book, as in
Fahrenheit 451.
Rather, they are expressing their objections to the material in a ritualized mannerSlide7
Irreplaceable Material Lost to Burnings
Library of Alexandria
Burning of books and burying scholars under China’s Quin Dynasty
Book burnings by the Nazi regimeSlide8
After looking at the handout…
What kinds of books do people tend to burn?
Generally, what kinds of people burn books?
Why were these books burned?Slide9
Nazi Book BurningSlide10
Nazi Book Burning
On May 10, 1933 in Berlin there was “The Burning of the Books”
The Nazis and the Nazi youth groups burned almost 20,000 books
These were books from an early
sexology
research center, and books from the
Humbolt
UniversitySlide11
Nazi Book Burning
The goal of this was to rid Germany of any book that contained “
unGerman
ideas” and therefore, was unfit to read
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister stated, “The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character.”Slide12
Follow up Discussion
Is there any justification for banning certain books (or movies; or art)?
If so, what would you criteria be?
Have you ever read or seen anything so offensive that you wished it would be banned? How did it make you feel?
Why do you think fire is used to destroy books? What is its symbolic significance?