Fahrenheit 451 Technology Analysis

In today's society is technology a good or a bad thing? Technology may have some good qualities about it, but it is bad in today’s society. It can cause many problems in today's world. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury he emphasizes the negative aspects of technology. The main character Guy Montag is a fireman, in the beginning, he is completely reliant on technology like everyone else in his world, eventually, he sees the negative side of technology throughout his time reading books. He begins to question everything because of Clarisse McClellan who is his neighbor, then he reacquainted with a former professor named Faber who felt the same way about technology; the two of them planned to use the power of books for good to rid the world of

When Clarisse and Montag are walking down the street at night talking about what they think is wrong with their world, Clarisse explains, “...I don'tdont think it’s social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk…” (Bradbury 27 ). Clarisse is explaining that when she is at school the people do not talk to each other they spend all of their time with their technology. They see people spending time talking to each other using technology even if they are in the same room as each other. This leads people to become distant fromfromto the people around them and they seem to forget how to communicate with each other because they depend on talking through technology. When describing people’s dependence on technology, the author, who wrote an article about the positives and negatives of technology, expresses that people rely on their technology more than anything else: “Individually, we depend more on our technologies than ever before” (Coopersmith). The author is talking about how technology has created an environment where people are better at communicating through technology rather than regularly talking to one another face to face. People become dependent on talking through technology, and do not see the importance that comes from talking with one

In an article that covers the negative and positive aspects of technology, Coopersmith describes technology as “understanding less” and people no longer “knowing what [they are] doing,” which has “increased our dependence” (Coopersmith). When people begin to rely solely on technology, then they are left with little understanding of how the world truly is outside of their technology. This causes people to begin to trust the things that they see through their technology. They become so dependent on the things they see and read through their technology that they don't know what to do when they don't have it. When the handymen came to Montag’s to save Mildred when she overdosed, they told Montag that “[she would] be fine” and that they got all the “mean stuff” out of her blood; they told him that when“ [they] take out the old” then “[she would] okay” and it would make her good as new. (Bradbury 13). Mildred would have died from the overdose if she didwould not have havehad technology there to save her. She relied on technology to a point where if it was not there for her then she would have died. This reliance on technology made her think that overdosing was okay because the technology would save