Fahrenheit 451 Technology Quotes

“Everything is generated through your own will power”, (Bradbury, brainyquote.com). I find that this quote means that everything is powered by yourself and your will to do it. If you can’t find the will to do it then you can’t power it. Ray Bradbury, a man who perceived the future differently than others. He published a book known as Fahrenheit 451 that set the world on fire. Published in 1951, this book viewed our modern day society as a lot different than others. While most saw the future as a great place of robots and health he saw it as controlled and odd world. In the world imagined by Ray Bradbury books are illegal and the world is reigned over by technology, similar to our world in that sense. Both of our societies have aspects similar

In the home of Guy and many others they don’t truly care about one another except for the unusual McClellan household. Our modern day society is much like that in many aspects. Many neighborhoods aren’t particularly caring towards others and some households don’t even care about one another. In Guy’s home his wife Mildred is quite rude and uncaring to Montag as seen when Montag gets ill and collapses. She only cared about her own wellbeing and her “family.” This family isn’t even her own family and lives in the wall-sized televisions that all the other residents have as well. The reason for only caring for these parlors is that the love of technology grew so strong that they were controlled and changed through these parlors and “families” that don’t even love them. Our society is similar to them in a way. We both

Clarisse tells Montag, “There used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. . . the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches.”(Bradbury 65) Our world is different. Ideas are shared freely because we aren’t as controlled as they are. The main law that the book focuses on is that literature was banned and burned when found. The people who have books are in fear of the fact that their whole world is burned down and they value their books more than their own lives. In our society books and literature is encouraged and provided because it is said to grow the brain and mind. Yet, some books make people like the firemen in Fahrenheit 451. Some people enjoy the book while others see it as offensive so it should be