Personal relationships are often seen as positive, full of meaningful conversations and have caring interactions but in a utopian world it involves many challenges. Personal relationships become straining which creates a more tense and strenuous environment for a bond a good example of this would be when protagonist Mildred invited her friends over to watch TV with her “family” later leading main character Guy Montag to unplugging the TV’s because of the anger built up in him. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury represents relationships involving technology struggle. Throughout the book it follows a firefighter named Guy Montag that is highly influenced by society. Firefighters in the utopian world burn down houses that have books inside of them. Books are seen as a negative influence and can be departmental to a person 's well …show more content…
Their names lept into the fire, burning down the years under the axe and hose which sprayed not water but kerosene” (Bradbury page 31) The statement made in the book explains, how Montag felt about burning books and how he felt he was ruining what was once a good world. Guy had found many flaws in the utopian system starting with the way people had used their time while those who did not spend it consumed with a fake world were often seen as strange and peculiar rather than just normal everyday people. Death was normal to the people living in this world which is rather alarming and shows the darkness that underlies in the depressed society, “Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks…” (Pg.27) Clarisse was a friend of Montag 's and was scared of how people are dying and did not want to be killed or become one of the ones killed. Technology is used as an antidepressant rather than just