Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Have you ever read a book that predicted the future? Maybe even has predicted more that hasn't come?In his critically renowned book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury creates a dystopian future that will send chills down your spine.
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses a futuristic dystopian world to issue warnings to the people of his time
“Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time”. She felt nothing and said nothing her body was as lifeless as a dead body, this gives a sense of pity and makes the reader …show more content…

This supports the claim that teenagers and most of society use technology to hide themselves from reality, hinting at the ignorance and mindless living they have in the novel and in the book. In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury shows the mind of Montag and his surroundings , making him seem like the “odd 1 out” compared to the way people carry themselves around , making humility and self- awareness not really normality. “I rarely watch the parlor walls' or go to races or Fun Parks. So I've lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess”. The walls and small distractions were …show more content…

Think of these small things like drugs , with fake joy implemented and an ongoing persistent lifestyle that you have no control over , is there really any room for character development? But why notice if everyone around you does the same things and promotes the same things you do? So everyone sits back and chooses not to question the system. “They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple population. Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you follow me?" Being the same and believing what you hear is better than questioning the bull shit that everyone and the goverment is brainwashing them to believe. No judgment if they are the same , no ones sad if they all love to have fun and best of all no one notices because the government controls what you read and do because of its normal limitations they have set , in this case The police, mechanical hounds, and firefighters are all under the authoritarian government's authority. The