Chase Bevil
Mrs. Brown
Literature/Language Arts
First Block
Many people may look back at the 1950’s and view it as a normal era. However, the 1950’s were a critical time for the future generations. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, author, Ray Bradbury, displays the negative aspects of the 1950’s that could possibly be imperishable. Bradbury isn’t satisfied with society and how people live in the 1950’s, however, these same issues still exist today.
It is evident that technology is rapidly advancing and becoming a bigger role in people’s everyday lives. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury puts out his anger on his contemptuous thought of how technology is used by creating the despotic society that is based on technology. “ All of those chemical balances and percentages on all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs. It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hounds ‘memory’ a touch of amino acids, perhaps. That would account for what the animal did just now.”(Bradbury p. 26-27). As shown in the previous quote, technology can have a huge impact on society and how people live their lives. However, too much technology can be lethal.
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In Fahrenheit 451, burning down houses, people live being killed on the streets and getting ran over isn’t a big deal. “ For no reason at all in the world they would have killed me.” (p. 128). Bradbury is proving a point that violence is increasing in society and nobody is doing anything about it. Violence is being overlooked by society like it isn’t that big of a