Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury. In Fahrenheit 451, technology has affected everyday life; people believe everything that they hear, and or is presented to them. Technology in this society preaches to the people listening to it. It preaches what the people want to hear or what the government wants their civilians to hear. Technology replaces literature, curiosity, family, friends, and schools. People in this society do not realize the dangers that all the technology has on them or their relationships. So therefore in the wrong hands modern technology can be dangerous when implicated in education, relationships, and in a person’s belief system.
First of all, in Fahrenheit 451, schools have fallen victim to the dangers

For example Mildred and Montag’s relationship is torn because of the dangers of technology. Mildred is stuck ‘inside’ of their parlor walls. The parlor walls are where her ‘family’ is. “ ‘Will you turn the parlor off’ he asked. ‘That’s my family’ ” (48-49). Mildred is stuck inside of this world where her life revolves around the parlor. Mildred believes that her family are the walls. Mildred listens to the walls, and it effects Montag’s and her relationship. “ ‘Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife because she listens to the walls’ ” (82). Montag and Mildred’s relationship is suffering because of the dangers of technology. Mildred listens to the walls, and the walls obviously does not like Montag. So whatever the walls say to Mildred, she will believe. Mildred does not see how their relationship is being interfered with by the technology. Because she is too involved with her ‘family’, and their nonsense that they are making her believe. The readers also see how relationships are becoming the victims to technology when Mildred and her friends are over. Montag decides he has had enough of hearing the women talk about their lives, and how everything must revolve around them. So he decides to read a poem. Which in this society is illegal. Mrs. Phelps began to cry as Montag reads the poem Dover Beach. And the readers can tell the other women

Everything that is on a screen must be true. “ ‘ The televisor is ‘real’. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest, ‘ What nonsense!’ ” (84). With the televisions blasting the people with their thoughts, and possibly what the government wants their citizens to hear. The people of this society are not able to think for themselves, and or have their own opinions. The only opinions that they have are the ones that are being blasted into their ears, straight to their brains. Which then makes it more of an issue because they are unable to decide if this information that is being told to them through a screen is correct or wrong? Making technology in this case more of a danger. The general public can not decide what their own opinions are because they are so used to being told what they should believe. Not what they actually believe, but what they should believe. “ But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth” (84). The technology in this society shapes everything, it becomes the ‘truth’, it becomes the world in which these