Society Becoming Anti-Intellectual In Fahrenheit 451

Is society becoming anti-intellectual? Ray Bradbury, the author of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, saw that society as becoming anti-intellectual due to the advancement of technology. Bradbury portrays his theory very well in the novel. Upon reading this book I was deeply affected by the author’s predictions on how advancement in technology has overpowered and changed our lives. Thus, leading to what Ray Bradbury stated in the book to becoming more real. Fahrenheit 451 portrays a dystopian future in which the government burns books. The protagonist is a man named Guy Montag, a fireman. However, in this dystopian society, firemen are not people who put out fire, but they are the ones who start them, especially with the burning of books. Firemen also use mechanical hounds to sniff out books. In addition, the future

For Montag’s wife this is true. She was very obsessed with what was always being broadcasted on television. However, Montag grows disaffected from her and becomes fascinated by the books that he is supposed to be burning. Fahrenheit 451 ends with a nuclear war erupting that destroy most of civilization. Fahrenheit 451 has affected my thoughts on the pros and cons of technology. The novel was published in 1953 where there was not much development in technology. Nowadays, there is a significant amount of advancement in technology. Everyone is always seen looking at their smartphones instead of having a normal face-to-face conversation. Reading Fahrenheit 451 got me to think about a lot of things in society. In the story, people no longer want books. They are immersed in technology and words on paper are no longer needed or held at value. It is very ironic that what Bradbury stated