Playing video games, watching Youtube, surfing the web, looking at social media and watching TV are what people spend nearly all their spare time doing. Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a book about a world in which education and knowledge have been tossed aside in the pursuit of entertainment. The book can be seen as a warning about how social interactions have decreased and how people have become too obsessed with entertainment. Bradbury shows how dreadful it would be if people ceased to socialize with one another by exaggerating the apathy the people of Fahrenheit 451. An example of their lack of interaction with one another is among the families in the book. During Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps visit, Mildred’s friends, Montag …show more content…
Before the television came out, people used to read books which stimulated the mind. Now, people watch dramas, play video games, or watch Youtube. Bradbury portrays Mildred as constantly watching the parlor walls so much so that “[n]o matter when he [Montag] came in, the walls were always talking to Mildred” (44). The walls are essentially interactive TVs. The walls always talking to Mildred implies that she?doesn’t do anything other than watch the parlor walls. The only time Mildred is seen having fun with her friends is when she invites them over only to watch the parlor walls with them. The children in Fahrenheit 451 also waste endless hours in meaningless entertainment in Fun Park doing activities such as “break[ing] windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck[ing] cars in the Car Wrecker place” (30). The warped society in Fahrenheit 451 even has a amusement park filled with absurd activities for their enjoyment. The people of younger generation don’t have a place to do these activities in the real world but they can do it in video games. There are also various pieces of entertainment that are just as, if not worse, than the activities mentioned above. For example, a recent viral video that has received almost over 140 million views in less than a month. The video, named PPAP Pineapple Pen, is a song that has no meaning and