Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury and in the dystopian novel, which is set in the future, has advanced technology. The main character Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in the world where the books are banned. The technological advance can be seen through the inventions and the way the life is based
Mechanical hound is a dog like metal robot designed to kill thinkers and readers. Mechanical hound is made of steel and has a 4 inch needle, which has anesthetic which can kill a chicken, rat or a rabbit in three minutes. The purpose of the dog is to help the fireman, but in the novel, it is bound to kill and track the book readers. “The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live” (Quote Fahrenheit 451 chapter 1 page 24). The machine has a calculator that can be set on the combination to find so much sulfur, so many alkynes… which can be used to track people down which oppose the government. Montag’s boss Beatty sets the robot to spy on Montag. At the end of the novel, it is shown that they can use the hound to track Montag when he escapes the city, but the hound fails to complete its mission
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The machine is an imaginary copy of the animal just like the mechanical hound. The advance in technology also means the advance in medicine and one of the creations is electric eyed snake, which is used as a pump for blood and poison. “They had this machine. It slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down” (Quote Fahrenheit 451, chapter 1 page 14). The snake is used more than ten times a day, which shows how useful and how depressing the life is about the people living in the society and also the people who operate the machine are not even doctors and don’t care if the person dies or