Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

(MIP-3) When people of this society are taken away from technology, they actually gain their humanity that they have not had when they would be absorbed in the distractions of media.

(SIP-A) While people escape the distractions of technology, they actually start to realize that the people are more important than fictional characters of a show which leads them to care for and love people.

(STEWE-1) Montag thinks about Mildred when the city is being destroyed by bombs,"And Mildred... Get out, run! He saw her hotel room somewhere now in the half second remaining with the bombs a yard, a foot, an inch from her building”(Bradbury 152). In the beginning of the novel, Montag says that he would not actually weep or feel depressed if Mildred died. However,

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great séance and all, the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new”(Bradbury 133). When Montag finally leaves the chaos and distractions of technology, away from the city, he describes it as feeling like leaving behind a stage of many actors. What this means is that he feels like he has left all the distractions, and the overload of entertainment in the society. He additionally feels like he left this society that was pretending, or acting like it was so great when it was missing the humanity of its individuals. Next, Montag describes it also felt like he left a séance, which is a meeting where people try to make contact with the dead. This perhaps shows that he feels like he left all the people around technology who have no humanity and don’t even seem alive. Therefore, this piece of evidence shows that when people leave technology individuals just feel a reawakening within them as if there was a new life away from all the old. Indeed, this excerpt from Bradbury’s novel shows when people are brought away to a place without this technology they, feel a sense that they need to discover this new place. They feel this urge to explore this new setting because they realize it does not have the distractions of technology. While leaving this technology, they realize that they would not want to go back to all that chaos of the society, which then in turn will lead them to want to discover and learn about this new place. This in turn, gains the humanity they have lost from being so absorbed in their technology. In contrast, they