Fahrenheit 451 Technology Quotes

The society that Montag lives in is corrupted by technology, it impacts their cognitive and mental state. Mildred, his wife, is ignorant about situations and supresses reality she overdoses on sleeping pills, and does not come to realize it. Everyday she watches television and pretends she is in a play, refuses to spent time with Montag she rather watch tv and all she talks about is having another tv set up in their home. She refuses to have a baby because they bore her, and calls the tv her family. Mildred claims she is proud of her life although she’s lonely in her empty house when Montag is at work, she’s surrounded by her own thoughts. (84) Mildred cannot escape this virtual world, and instead conforms to what the parlor aunts and

I knew it, that’s what I wanted to prove! I knew it would happen! I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feeling, poetry and sickness” Mildred and her friends were not use to so much knowledge that hearing what the books contains were frightening and complex because it destroys their perfect stress free world. They started feeling emotions. After Montag begs her to listen to the book. Mildred refuses and screams for him to stop, showing that she would rather be ignorant than be exposed to something unknown. Mildred’s knowledge demonstrates how sometimes not knowing is easier that dealing with the truth. Mildred’s friend whose husband was going to war had all her guilt and sadness build up inside her and never expressed it which resulted in her to start crying and get angry when Montag read. The book makes people think and feel and realize the truth and reality. (9) "I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls' or go to races or Fun Parks. So I've lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess. Have you seen the two hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet

The hound represent the government instead of having the court proceedings the hound takes care of the job. Montag wonders if the hound has the ability to think, when unactive. The Captain responds, “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think '' all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing.” Since it is a robot, it cannot feel it is heartless. Slowly each day society not educating themselves we transfor into robots not being able to perceive things us being attached to technology kills our brain