Fahrenheit 451 Vs Modern Society

Imagine a world without the existence of books, does it make a significant difference or no impact to the society? Currently our society is on the verge of falling off a cliff, leading us straight to eliminating books, as our generation advances. In the book, Fahrenheit 451, books are completely outlawed by the government, which stirs trouble into the society. Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic society, changed in customs, relationships, and education similar and different to our modern society.

To start off with, in Fahrenheit 451, books are illegal and banned from the society because they had content that offended their citizens. Thus, rather than to extinguish fires, governments had firemen to burn books,

In a relationship, as time pass, your connection is supposed to grow deeper, but in Fahrenheit 451, the relationship between Montag and Mildred displays the opposite. For an example, when Montag had asked Mildred where they had originally met, and she gave no response because she had no clue. She gives off an odd laugh, also agreeing that it was weird not remembering where you met your “loved” one, but she states it doesn’t matter. Furthermore, Mildred had went to the restroom swallowing several pills. (Bradbury 40) This section of the book showed that although they been married for ages, nevertheless they have no connection nor spark that leads to an unbreakable bond. Assumedly, Mildred taking pills revealed that she was depressed and had the desire to commit suicide, but Montag realized he did not cared for her existence. In reality, our relationships are build up due to communication and being apart of our loved ones’ lives. In addition, technology was an obstacle that came between the relationship of Montag and Mildred. “How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars.” (Bradbury 18) Most people in this society consider their parlors as their “family,” which takes the the whole significance meaning of

“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histoires, language dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?” (Bradbury 53) This demonstrates how education in Fahrenheit 451, is lacking, and several classes were take today were removed. Our modern society proceeds to greater intelligence, however, many of us depend on the internet for answers instead of gaining knowledge. “An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher.” (Bradbury 27) Clarisse explains how teachers rambles all the basic information for students, not allowing them to engage in discussions and dig deeper for information. Compared to our modern society, many teachers aspire for students to participate and generate solutions on their own, allowing their brain to grow from curiosity. On the other hand, in the novel’s society, I perceived that sports were their main priorities rather than common course classes. Education has changed