Predictionss Conpects In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

“I’m not thinking. I’m just doing like I’m told, like always” (qtd. In 88). When Guy says this he is becoming aware that in this so called perfect society the government is controlling their minds, which is causing them to not have individual feelings and become adherent to the government and all the idiotic rules that they have. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, he makes many predictions that are applicable today. Some of these predictions are negatively impacting society, which is creating many problems for the people who do not want to follow what the government is enforcing. In the novel the people think that their TV’s are their family, that they do not have the capacity to think and judge the rules that the government made, and

An example of when this happened was in the beginning of the book when, the main character, Montag woke up and realized that, “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away” (16). When Guy sees Mildred, his wife, like this he is figuring out that technology is so important in his society and that people are inattentive and they are oblivious to the world around them. Montag walked in the room and his wife didn’t even take out the seashell radio to hear him talk to her, and she used her lip reading skills to see what he was saying instead of listening to what he had to say to her. This shows that some people are so dependant on technology that they can not even have a conversation with their own husband or wife. This relates to our society because some people can not have a simple conversation because they are too invested in their technology or they never learned how to hold a simple conversation with an adult or with someone their own age. Nowadays we have earbuds which is what Bradbury was trying to predict about the seashell radios and the traveling ear and how they are leading to mind control of people when it is constantly feeding information into their ears. Even nowadays people are always craving some action or always feel the need to be entertained and they

One time this happened was when Montag first met Clarisse she was asking him questions about being a fireman when she said, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn? He laughed. That’s against the law” (qtd. in 5). During this conversation Guy is thinking that Clarisse is crazy because she is asking him all these questions that are making him think about his life. While this is happening Clarisse is telling him different stories than what the government has brainwashed him into believing which is that books are worthless and have no emphasis on their world or their lives. In our world today someone sitting down and reading a book during their leisure time is very rare because many people would rather be on social media or watching TV because it is more entertaining and it has more action and interaction than a plain old book. We are constantly getting many upgrades and improvements in technology which is attracting people to the technology which is all pointless and is starting to control people’s minds. Just after Montag tells Mildred about the books he was hiding she got very upset and, “Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator. He caught her, shrieking. He held her and she tried to fight away from him, scratching” (63). Mildred is upset