Fahrenheit 451 Past And Future

What if this is our future? What if we become so immune to emotions and creativity that we all simply become numb and engulfed in the nothingness of our design? Is it truly a what-if, or is it a when? Throughout Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451, connections are seen in his predictions of our past, present, and future. Bradbury realized the importance of history and the past and how teaching it to upcoming generations through writing will help make them more connected with creativity to form innovative ideas and evolve as a race.

The future drives everyone to complete the goals they strive to complete in the present. To Ray Bradbury, the future that he predicts in the book could be both our present and future for generations to come. Bradbury

Without it, we lose meaning and when it changes, we become mindless. We just follow those ahead of us because it is all we have ever known. Bradbury was able to show us this by stating, "Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First fireman: Benjamin Franklin” (32). This quote connects to how easily you can control others by their past. How the people of Bradbury’s society based their actions on false pretenses, so they assumed their actions were right. It shows Bradbury’s understanding of history and its importance in shaping a society. It also connects to how paper and writing are seen throughout the book to remember. The writings left behind are our only clues to past events in many places in history. There is a reason the ideas of the human mind and intellect of the past are still valued today. The past has laid the groundwork for humanity, but the only way to access it is to look back. He recognized way before anyone else did that writing and literature do not just hold knowledge but teach others’ ideas and help form their imaginations. Without this, other generations will start to fall away, as mine has already started. We have gotten lost in our minds and given no imagination. I find it almost ironic that a man known for creating inventions and forming ideas was cast as the first to destroy the things where innovative ideas and imagination