The Alienation Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451
As social philosopher once said “The real problem is not weather the machine thinks but weather men do” (B.F. Skinner) this simple but meaningful quote plays a tremendous role in our modernized world where all we do involves technology, which has slowly made humans as a race progressively more lazy. This directly correlates to Montags dystopian society that without the luxuries of self thought and books. Montag, a fireman, who instead of extinguishing fires, but burns books to expunge the chance of having a citizen read them and see their true elegance. He does not do this because he wants to but because the government and the social norms have adulterated him. As the novel goes on we watch as
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After talking to an outcast of a teen girl, Clarisse, who taught Montag to muse about the world in a different way and reading for the first time. He starts to depict his society and life in different ways. He watches as his wife, and her friends have no real human connections, but will lock themselves in the parlor rooms and watch the walls for hours then fall asleep with the seashell radios in their ears. During the novel, we see small moments where Mildred, Montag's wife, slightly rebels and will read with Montag but due to the fact that she has been watching the walls for so long she is too corrupted she does not take in the knowledge or take in to tuition the little negligible sights, and sounds in her life. So in the novel author Ray Bradbury uses the alienation of technology in order to explore the idea that technology corrupts natural human …show more content…
The difference between a book and the walls, well their are a few but, like Faber says “You can shut them, say ‘Hold on a moment.’ while the walls will portray any thought you or image you want, such as the “families” these women have. The reason this causes alienation is because the government cannot control books, or the information in books, but they can control what is portrayed on each families walls, so this allows the government to ‘brainwash’ these citizens who own the walls. Using the walls allows the government to stop people from thinking, caring, feeling and this causes alienation between an individual and