Studies show that people who spend more time engaging with technology than with other people can struggle to understand emotion and create strong bonds with others. They tend to alienate themselves behind a screen. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, author, Ray Bradbury, creates a dystopia where the protagonist Guy Montag, realizes that society is unintelligent and anti-social due to the abundance of technology. Books were futile, they no longer meant anything to the people, and he wants to make a change. He goes on the adventure for global good. Ray Bradbury’s overall purpose for creating Fahrenheit 451 is to mock the impact of technology on society. Montag’s journey is actually the author’s social commentary on the alienation and ignorance of society. His use of diction can be used to reveal tone. Tone can be connected to the theme of being you even when …show more content…
There is very few left who want to know information and want to learn. This dystopian society created The Hound, used to destroy all knowledge. The Hound is a mechanical dog that hunts people rather than a human going out and doing it. “Come off it. It doesn’t like or dislike. It just ‘functions’ it’s like a lesson in ballistics. It has a trajectory we decide for it. It follows through. It targets itself, homes itself.” (Bradbury. 19) This illustrates the ignorance in humans; they have a mechanical dog getting rid of all traces of knowledge. Instead of being encouraged to learn, you are hunted down for it. Montag has come home from work one night and realizes that his wife, Mildred, has overdosed. “He felt his left hand plunge toward the telephone. The jets were gone. He felt his lips move, brushing the mouthpiece of the phone. “Emergency Hospital”” (Bradbury. 11) this illustrates the ignorance of society. Mildred wasn’t carful, and she wasn’t thinking, therefore, she took an abundance of pills and did not remembered what happened to her