Technology In Fahrenheit 451

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People have feared the future that technology will bring as we become more isolated on our phones and devices instead of real human interaction. The dystopian future that Ray Bradbury depicts in the book (Fahrenheit 451) is eerily similar to what is occurring today. It consumes peoples daily lives just like in the story where people like Mildred are just like a random person on the street to her husband. the society in the book is forced to live much like robots, where people didn’t care for one another and they cared more about themselves and their own entertainment. Montag, is a ‘fireman’ in the story where his job is to burn books to be able to conform to the society that was created. People who own these books are burned with them if they …show more content…

Every day they would have the same routine with their eyes glued to the television screen and almost no real face to face conversations. They became more interested in the imaginative digital world rather than what was actually occurring. Mildred for example was an example of this, as she didn’t care about anything other than her television. Her own husband was like a random person on the street to her. First, Montag asks Mildred“When did we meet and where?....... I don’t know” (Montag asking Mildred Pg.43) In this scene, Montag is curious to know where he and Mildred, his wife, first met. She replies that she doesn’t remember. This proves how Mildred became so indulged into the digital world that she can’t even remember a moment that would be monumental to another persons life. Instead, Mildred is more intrigued by the fascinations of the people behind the screen. Next, Mildred doesn’t care about life itself anymore and is driven to the point of near s suicide. Montag, after noticing the pills in the bottle all gone, confronts Mildred saying, “You took all the pills in your bottle last night” (Pg.19). This signifies Mildreds underlying unhappiness. Watching television most likely made her depressed, and unhappy with life because she no longer cared for anything other than material items. People like Mildred were an example for a citizen consumed by the media, and materialistic items of life, where they …show more content…

Mechanical dogs were high tech machines that would find and harm whoever was ordered to do so. For example, when Montag was speaking out against the society, the mechanical dog attempted to kill Montag, by making a “Single last leap into the air coming down at Montag from a good three feet over his head” (Montag Pg. 120). Montag was a person who was revolting against the corrupt society, but upon doing so, he was involved in a conflict with his boss, and was attacked by the mechanical dog, which shows the extent to which the society wants to keep everything the same. Also, the media would glamorize the technology and portray to the public how going against their idea of the city would result in severe consequences. While listening to the radio, Montag heard that the new dogs have a “Nose so sensitive, they can remember and identify 10,000 odor indexes” (Pg.133). The media makes the Mechanical hounds seem nearly indestructible, which limits change in the society by creating fear in keep people from becoming unruly and rebellious against the government.Civilians no longer care about what is truly occurring outside, but instead only wants to be entertained, as evidenced by the media using Montag as a way to indulge people in this

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