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Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Modern Day Technology

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Fahrenheit 451, the award winning novel by Ray Bradbury, has a few different similarities with their technology of their time, compared to our modern day technology. Everyday our modern day technology is improving and advancing, taking our attention off of each other and more onto a device. When you go out to eat, you will see teenagers on their cell phones rather than socializing with who is in front of them. This brings me to my first point, we believe it is “acceptable” in our society as well as in the Fahrenheit society to sit in front of a television or to stay on our phones for hours, upon hours, not interacting with other humans. We are slowly becoming more and more antisocial with others, we mostly interact with each other through
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So often readers don't know what they will expect from a book. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 many things seemed to happened that were unexpected. It’s very relevant to readers in the modern world to read this book. Fahrenheit 451 has a powerful message to modern readers because of the similarities and differences between the novel and our world.

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Missed Connections By making references from Fahrenheit 451 I can infer that because of censorship and technology people no other. Technology is used to distract and entertain the people therefore they are happier watching or listen to their technology than the outside world. The loss of human connection leads to being unsympathetic. To start, in Fahrenheit 451, it's obvious that society has no emotional or personal connection to anyone. Married couples don't even have any chemistry, “ ‘Will you bring me aspirin and water?’

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Fahrenheit 451 had a few types of technology. The 1950’s was the birth of many new types of technology. From the credit card in 1950, to the first machine in 1959, they were all new to the public. In today’s society there are so many types of technology, from smartphones to paying with just the face. Fahrenheit had the mechanical hound, TV’s.

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To begin, Fahrenheit 451 is based on a futuristic war between technology and modernization as well as man and the natural world. We are referred to be in the “Age of technology” because society depends hugely in the “Science of the mechanical and industrial art.” Does Fahrenheit 451 has a powerful message for readers today because of the similarities between our world and the novel’s world. “See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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The book Fahrenheit 541 is by Ray Bradbury. This book is set in the 24th century, it introduces the new world in which control of masses of media and censorship. This is a dystopian novel. The world today has more benefits than they did in this book. I don’t think that it is accurate to our world because the people, the way we treat books, and the technology are completely different between our 2 worlds.

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What would you do if there was another world that burned homes instead of put them out? Society today is used to keeping the community a safe place instead of putting the society in danger. This society strives for balance and fair living. Fahrenheit 451 contrasts to modern society in areas of Government, Firemen, and Books.

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Amira Al Basuony Mrs. Gloria Penelbart English 12 17 February 2015 A comparison between F451 and today's world Ray Bradbury's story Fahrenheit 451 reveals a future that is corresponding to our ongoing society. Bradbury's science fiction explains the story of a community that is best known for relying in technology to direct them in everyday lives. In F451, the characters live in an odd society where they watch a lot of TV as they don't read books, and drive extremely fast that they miss what objects they actually see.

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Fahrenheit 451 and the Use of Technology Phones, computers, TVs, and the internet dominate modern society. Technology and the lack of books is a very prominent part of the society and the storyline throughout Fahrenheit 451 as well. Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in the 1950s, but he described many different kinds of futuristic technologies, some of which we even see today. The technology that Bradbury describes in Fahrenheit 451 must have seemed unreasonable to readers in the 1950s, but we have seen that this technology is feasible indeed.

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While Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s society, differs from current day society, they both are similar. To start, emotion lacks in Montag’s world. In Fahrenheit, no one shows any sympathy toward others. The novel states, “The operator stood smoking a cigarette… ‘Got to clean ‘em out both ways’”(Bradbury 12). This quote shows that the “M.D” does not care that Millie just attempted to kill herself.

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The differences and similarities between the book’s society and our modern day society really bulged out at me while I was reading the book ‘Fahrenheit 451’. In Fahrenheit 451, books are banned. And instead of having firemen that put out fire, the firemen start the fire to burn down books and houses. There are many differences and similarities between our modern day society and the the society in the book ‘Fahrenheit 451’. Such as our Government, Technology, and Behavior.

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