Technology In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is a great example of how technology can be used to distract people from their own thoughts and influences society to focus on the less important things in life. The book teaches the reader to focus on small things and it also shows how technology prevents people from having certain relationships with people that they should. One character Bradbury uses to persuade the reader that technology isn’t always a fortunate luxury, is Mildred, Guy Montags wife. During the book, Mildred is so interested in the “parlor” that she believes the characters are her family members. Clearly she is so vulnerable to the ways of everyone else that she does not understand Guy Montag when he tries to explain new things

Guy Montag, the second character, is a firefighter who starts to feel a certain guilt about his job. In Fahrenheit 451 the firefighters take on a different role than in real life. In this novel the firefighters burn books and any homes housing books. Montag meets a young lady, Clarrise, and she questioned him “Are you happy” (Bradbury 7), and from that moment forward Montag wasn’t the same. As a firefighter, he saw things and had to do things that started to feel wrong. A call came in one day about a women housing thousands of books, of course they had to burn her house down, but the woman refused to exit her home. Later on that day Montag went home to Mildred and they had a conversation about burning the lady in the house, and Montag states “I didn’t like myself anymore” (Bradbury 41). This statement leads the reader to believe that he doesn’t want to continue burning books, burning

She doesn’t rely on technology to control her or tell her how she should emotionally feel or live. She notices nature and also expresses her feelings, she isn’t afraid to be unique and showing others who she is. Everyone who knows Clarisse thinks that she is weird, because her society does not accept people like Clarisse. Because she is “weird” no one really bothers to talk to her or notice her. She knows that she is different; she realizes what makes her different and accepts it as a good thing. She says to Montag “Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning” (Bradbury 7). After she pointed out the fact that dew is present in the mornings Montag could not remember if he had known this or not. Clarisse cared about things small as the book, society was only interested in the technology that existed when they should have been more worried about nature and other