No one today, can go a day without being affected by technology let alone go without it. People depend on it to make everyday tasks like transportation, education, and leisure feasible. Technology is praised for doing many magnificent things, for example, helps cure lethal diseases, solve crimes, and keeps communication in tact around the world in an instant. However, it is unforeseen by its designers as toxic to the human society because in everyone’s eyes, the benefits outweigh the destructiveness of technology. The advanced technology in Fahrenheit 451 was clearly one of the antagonists in the novel because it was so prevalent in everyone’s households and lives which contributed to the downfall of humanity.
One symbol in the novel that contributed to the deteriation in that society was the mechanical Hound. Montag said to Beatty, “All of those chemical balances and percentages on all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs. It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound’s ‘memory,’ a touch of amino acids, perhaps. That would account for what the animal did just now. Reacted toward me” (24). The mechanical Hound’s purpose is to act as if it were replacing a police officer. However, the Hound is artificial and does not have any authentic life-like qualities such as thoughts, feelings, or any
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Montag observed Mildred, “There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her Seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far placed, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her in the ceiling” (39). Bradbury added this form of advanced technology into the novel in order to convey a message that it will enhance how a human may become antisocial or brainwashed from something that is used