Plato

=Plato= = = In Fahrenheit 451 there is a reference to Plato’s allegory of the cave Plato’s allegory of the cave was Plato’s views on government, when he wrote it he mentioned how knowledge of the past is important, to keep order and we should not destroy it. Although in Fahrenheit 451 firemen were burning books, and most of the time books contain history.

Sources: http://www.historyguide.org/ intellect/allegory.html []