Fahrenheit 451 Technology Analysis

“There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam. Montag was cut in half,” (Bradbury 11). In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, author, Ray Bradbury, creates a dystopian society where the protagonist, Guy Montag, realizes that the society he lives in is slowly falling apart and now he must try to find a way to help mend society back together again. When Bradbury wrote this book in the 1950’s, he was trying to exhort the problems he thinks are going wrong with the world. Although his thoughts thrived over fifty years ago, some issues like school, society, war, and technology are still a problem today.
In the novel, Bradbury distinctly gives the reader an exaggerated, yet pragmatic idea

After Montag’s house has been burned down because of the books, Montag is hiding in a gas station while he is on the run from the police who are trying to find and kill him for his crimes. “Through the aluminum wall he heard a radio voice saying, ‘War has been declared.’ Montag stood trying to make himself feel the shock of the quiet statement from the radio, but nothing would happen. The war would have to wait for him to come to it in his personal file, an hour, two hours from now,” (Bradbury 119). This illustrates Bradbury’s thoughts on the fact that society is dangerously numb to war. People, from the 1950’s to now, have gotten so immune to war and fighting that no one takes the time to stop and think about what is realistically happening everyday. After Montag gets Faber to help him, Faber is talking to Montag about books, technology, and how their society has fallen apart. “But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and skepticism, i have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full of color, three dimensions, and bring in and part of those incredible parlor. As you see, my parlor