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Examples Of Modernity In Fahrenheit 451

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Olivia Pak
Mr. Buonadonna
English 1 Honors Period 6
3 March 2023
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Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury, published in the year 1953. In this novel, Ray Bradbury introduced modernity, which means the condition of being modern. Due to Bradbury’s introduction of modernity, there were two ways to interpret Fahrenheit 451. One way was for modernity to be abolished and another way was for modernity to still be included throughout life. Through Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tried to prove that the complex, industrialized, affluent, educated, safe, socially advanced, and technologically advanced world of modernity is dehumanizing and must be abandoned because the advancement of science is rapidly growing to destroy human values and emotions, limits social interaction between other people, and creates an escape to reality.
Ray Bradbury proved that science created a negative influence on society because people started to lose the freedom to do anything they desired to do. In Fahrenheit 451, the Mechanical Hound was known for roaming around the towns to check on the people to see if they are doing anything against the law, such as reading books. The Mechanical Hound would run to people who were doing illegal …show more content…

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury invented devices that contemporary society is addicted to. Seashells, which were Mildred’s biggest possessions, were earbuds that cut off all sounds created outside the earbuds. Montag was asking Mildred if she was alright the morning she woke up from having too many pills. Mildred, with her seashells in, nodded her head, and while she was nodding, Montag was thinking, “She was an expert at lip-reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles.” (Bradbury 16). Since Mildred had her seashells for ten years, she already started to escape reality. Bradbury was trying to prove that technological devices created a gap between reality and

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