Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

Fallon Frisby 4 Mrs. Malone English 1 CP: period 4 29 February 2024 How Overuse of Technology Can Affect Your Emotions The average person spends around 7 hours a day on some form of technology. From cell phones to computers, using technology for work, entertainment, and more, technology dominates almost everyone's lives. Overuse of technology can affect our emotions. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury warns against technology and human emotions and offers hope through books, but the Bible says to trust in the Lord with one’s heart and lean not on human understanding. Fahrenheit 451 warns against the overuse of technology. A great example of overuse of technology is in a dystopian world like Fahrenheit 451. Let’s look at some examples. Mildred is one

Mildred was blocking out her reality; this is the first example we see in this book. She does this to block out her emotions and focus on herself rather than communicating with her husband, and she uses technology to help her sleep. This next quote shows Montag’s response to how Mildred wants more technology: “Well, wasn't there a wall between him and Mildred when you came down to it? Not just one wall, but, so far, three! And expensive, too! And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree-apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud” (Bradbury

Another example is the books. Montag says this: “We need not be left alone. We need to be bothered once in a while. How long has it been since you were bothered? About something important, about something real” (Bradbury 55). Montag said this when he could not stop thinking about the lady and her books that he had just burned down. This shows how Montag is realizing how their society is messed up. He realizes that people need to have a little conflict in their lives, as they cannot just live in a utopian universe and let people block their emotions out as people are starting to go numb. Faber also says, “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you’ll never learn” (Bradbury 113). Faber is showing Montag how he was a coward, and he should have stood up to the government. Faber is right in this quote, giving the readers more hope in humanity in Fahrenheit 451, as he is also admitting to his mistakes of being a coward and taking ownership. He is reflecting on something in the past that could have had an impact on their society today. Let’s look at how there is hope in the Bible. The Bible says we should put our hope in