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Impact Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

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Technology has a negative impact on society because it broadcast’s what the government wants people to know and gives them a false sense of reality. Technology has a negative impact on society because the government only broadcasts certain things by showing billboards for miles and using screens to provide a false sense of reality. In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse and Montag are talking about how the government broadcasts things. Clasrisse asks Montag “Have you seen the two hundred foot long billboards in the country beyond the town? Did you know that once billboards were only 20 feet long… They had to stretch the advertising out so it would last”(Bradbury pg. 7). The billboards only advertise and show people certain things. It is majorly censored to what the government wants the town to know. In addition technology gives people a false sense of reality. For example in Fahrenheit 451 Montag's wife Mildred is addicted to TV and she even pretends she is in a play Bradbury says “she didn't look up from the script again. ‘Well this is a play that comes on the wall to wall circuit in 10 minutes. They mailed me my part this morning’” (Bradbury pg. 17). Mildred completely checks out from …show more content…

Although technology has advanced peoples chances to live it also makes it convenient and easy for people to hurt themselves because it's likely you can be saved. In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred has just overdosed on sleeping medicine. Montag caught it in time and called 911 for help. The operator had two machines, one that drank up the matter from the stomach and the other took the blood and replaced it with fresh, clean blood (Bradbury pg. 11). This machine makes it easy for people to overdose and come back to life. People don't have to be mindful of their actions when they know they can easily be saved. It makes people think less about their actions, ultimately creating more problems in the

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. In conclusion, Ray Bradbury uses individuals in F451 to demonstrate how technology can impact mental health by showing readers the character’s reactions towards extreme burning. The book Fahrenheit 451(F451) relates how the government uses technology and mass media to achieve conformity, which resulted in not being able to process what is going on but instead blindly following what technology tells them to do. As Mildred and her friends watch a TV show on the parlor walls, they express their enthusiasm and excitement at the meaningless action.

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury suggests that excessive use of technology is the most responsible for the destruction of Montag’s society. Some people argue that excessive use of technology is beneficial to Montag’s society because it creates a distraction from their own personal problems. One example from the text causes them to feel this way is when Mildred overdosed the night before and Montag was trying to discuss it with her and she used the script to avoid talking about it. However, that same scene actually demonstrates that excessive use of technology is harmful to Montag’s society because it pushes away their personal problems, but doesn’t solve them at all.

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Technology rules the 21st century. Phones and appliances are what this world is made up of, that’s where the money is. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows how the government uses technology to censor their citizens. Like Mildred’s tvs or technology has always been there for her so she calls the parlor walls her family.

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Today technological advancements, upon which society is built, are made on a daily basis. Technology is used by everyone but whether any of us like to admit it or not, it has an influence on our behavior. In Fahrenheit 451, the dystopian city and the natural countryside are used to contrast reliance on technology and human nature - an idea seen in today’s society, which benefits from advancements in technology but is also becoming increasingly dependent upon it. Bradbury expresses his social criticism on how modern advancements have an influence on society by comparing the city and the countryside. This idea of dependence can be seen when Montag talks to the "impersonal fellows" from the emergency hospital; who state that they got so many

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Being obsessed with technology can destroy a society, and people’s relationships in it. Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 to keep the future from turning into the dystopian world in the book. The characters in the novel are attached to technology more than their own families. Everyone is caught up in television, and they do not stop to see what is going on around them. The firemen burn books and houses instead of putting out fires.

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Bradbury’s Prediction of Mass Media and its Influence Fahrenheit 451 shows a dystopian society in which the government controls the lives of people and uses mass media to influence their thoughts, ideas, beliefs and overall lives. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury used the TV walls, the seashell radios, and the Green Bullet to predict the use of mass media to influence the American Population. One of the ways that Bradbury uses technology to predict its influence on the American society is the TV walls.

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In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Rad Bradbury's message is that technology and wars led to a decline of unawareness of society. Fahrenheit 451 depicts a world in which people are not allowed to read or have religious beliefs, which negatively impacts society. Montag realized that people in his society are unaware and fixing that problem begins with getting rid of the addiction to technology that many people in Montag’s society have. Montag meets people such as Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles who are 2 women in a parlor staring at a TV. When Montag closes their TV.

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Technology makes people be aggressive or isolate themselves. Technology makes people aggressive, and it leads to doing bad things. While Montag was talking to Beatty he was saying how they never burn the right things. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag says, “We never burned right…”

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This is because the standard of technology is very high and improves the quality of life. Brian Black’s article titled “Electric Appliances” from Gale in Context states that the standard of technology for an American household is having electricity, an electric stove, a microwave, a fridge and freezer, one or more TVs, a computer, and phones. The standard of technology in Fahrenheit 451 is of greater expectations than in real life. Everybody has television “parlor” rooms with screens that take up entire walls, and when they are not surrounded by the screens and noise, they still have their “seashell” radios in their ears. “ [Mildred’s] hand moved.

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As noticed in Fahrenheit 451 we can see that a lot of technology used or some of the actions of the characters are short-term fixes for long-term solutions. Such as the normality of overdosing on sleep pills because the media has normalized it and even made it okay and being able to burn houses with books because they don’t like, forgetting the people in the house are affected too. After Mildred had overdosed on her sleeping pills the previous night, Montag sees her in the morning in the TV parlor and tells her, “You took all the pills in your sleeping bottle.” to which Mildred replies, “Oh I wouldn’t do that. I wouldn’t do that in a billion years.” (Bradbury 17)

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Technology can be used to connect, but it can also be used to distract and control our society. One way technology is portrayed negatively in the text is the loss of critical thinking. Just like in the real-world, technology can be harmful if it’s relied upon. It’s good to poise the benefits, but also

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