Dystopias, a genre of books that portrays a world with disastrous societies with an exaggerated moral in it. Dystopias are written as satiric literature that authors use to express and comment their feelings about our world and our society. In Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Montag lived in a society where personal freedom is prohibited and freedom of speech is obliterated by the government. The moral of the story that the author wants to reveal is reflected by cataclysmic characteristics or extreme development in the story. The issues the author want to comment on our world are often exaggerated in order to show how they are important. Technology is one of the most important exaggeration in the story the author uses to portray how personal freedom and speech of freedom are important. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury constructs a world, a society that has advanced technology and everyone in that society is obsessed with it. Bradbury describes how technology hurts and destroys knowledge. The Mechanical Hound from the story also helps convey this idea. The Mechanical …show more content…
Technology such as the parlour from the story can be seen as a way the government used to mentally control people. Mildred, Montag’s wife is an example of how people are being brainwashed by technology. Mildred is dependent on the parlour and the “relatives” she interacts with, but in fact, she is actually empty inside and she is losing her personality in real life. Mildred chooses to spend her time with technology instead of people in real life. The technology might give a sense of happiness at the moment but when she doesn’t have the technology, she chooses to kill herself by taking excessive sleeping pills. Mildred becomes more vulnerable to any feelings and emotions because she has not felt any