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Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Technology in fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury is warning us in the book Fahrenheit 451 that technology is becoming too advanced for humanity and could bring humanity to a halt. And he also brings us to the attention that technology addiction is becoming the new form of behavioral addiction. He does this by including characters in the novel Fahrenheit 451 such as, Clarridse, Montag, And Mildred. I read an article titled, “The Social Dilemma” that talked about the addiction in technology today. And I found a quote that stated, “People are depressed because of social media.” And this connects to the character Mildred, because in the beginning of the book, she is depressed and almost overdosed on sleeping pills. And this shows us how people are unhappy in a world with this technology because everyone is too focused on their technology. …show more content…

He shows us this idea by including the character Mildred in the book as she uses seashells a lot daily. And he also shows us that technology is a problem in society by including a different character named Clarisse and her struggles at school. As she talks about her struggles in school, she claims how kids at school are too invested in their technology at school to learn and not socializing at school. And that is why she has struggles at her school. He also uses Clarrise to ask Montag a question of, “Are you happy?” and this question makes Montag think outside of the box and causes him to do important actions in the book, for example stealing books from houses and reading them. And Bradbury also adds in the robotic dog in the book to show the level of advanced technology the society

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People nowadays live on their phone screens with headphones in their ears. People pay more attention to their phones than people themselves. Technology has taken over our lives and has removed the importance of spending time with family and friends. Instead of living with family, we live with technology. Ray Bradbury, who wrote Fahrenheit 451 describes it without directly referring to it, he introduces the ideas that people always have headphones in their ears, tv walls, and burning books.which doesn't directly refer to technology being bad, but says it in a symbolic way.

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The author wants us to realize how negatively technology is influencing us and the effect it has on people. For example, when Captain Beatty comes over to Montag’s house, he says, “‘If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him… Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.

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Ray Bradbury warns about the overuse of technology in society. The overuse of technology distracts people from what is important in life. In the world of Guy Montag, technology rules society. Their world is filled with speeding cars and TV screens that span across entire walls. Technology has even replaced actual family members.

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After talking to an outcast of a teen girl, Clarisse, who taught Montag to muse about the world in a different way and reading for the first time. He starts to depict his society and life in different ways. He watches as his wife, and her friends have no real human connections, but will lock themselves in the parlor rooms and watch the walls for hours then fall asleep with the seashell radios in their ears. During the novel, we see small moments where Mildred, Montag's wife, slightly rebels and will read with Montag but due to the fact that she has been watching the walls for so long she is too corrupted she does not take in the knowledge or take in to tuition the little negligible sights, and sounds in her life. So in the novel author Ray Bradbury uses the alienation of technology in order to explore the idea that technology corrupts natural human

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There are many parallels that I could draw when reading the book. For example, Guy’s wife, Mildred,

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Books in this society are deemed to be controversial and useless. Montag is one of the few people in the book that realizes that their way of living was isolating them from bigger matters. Even though society

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One prime example of how conformity can harm society is the use of technology in the novel. The seashell earbuds, for instance, serve as a barrier between Mildred and her husband. By using the earbuds to escape from reality and drown out her emotions, Mildred cannot connect with Montag. As the narrator describes, "And in her ears, the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind" (page 10). The technology used in the novel ultimately prevents individuals from communicating effectively and leads to a lack of emotional connections.

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Have you ever questioned how much technology can affect you? Technology can affect many factors of your daily life because, when people tend to use technology it’s like they’re trapped in their world and distracted from life. Throughout the book, Bradbury shows how technology impacts the characters in his dystopian novel. Mildred, who is Montag’s wife, uses technology so much it has changed her mindset completely.

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The Detriments of Technology in Fahrenheit 451 While technology serves a great benefit to society, it simultaneously burns the connections people have with each other and the world around them. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury hones in on a world consumed by the wonders of technology. Books are seen as dangerous and illegal, and they are burned by the government in favor of more exciting and interesting technologies. The overuse of technology in Fahrenheit 451 hindered social skills, severed relationships, and promoted ignorance as it entered more households and communities.

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Major Themes: Technology can isolate people and inhibit sharing of ideas and emotion; In the book technology stops Mildred from expressing her emotions. She is always obsessed with her television shows and doesn’t acknowledge the fact that she attempted to commit suicide, and doesn’t express her true feelings. Mindless pleasure-seeking and materialism may be devastating to a society; In the book since most people are blinded by what’s going on in the world around them they refuse to accept that the government is corrupt. Symbols: -Fire: Fire symbolizes the burning books and how Clarisse reminds Montag of a candle light, flickering with

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It affects it by not caring about the people feelings because it is a discration by the technology. The families in the book was all about technology they never payed attention to each other because they were watching TV or doing something else. How’re your children Mrs Phelps?’’ he asked ‘’You know I haven’t any no one in his right mind, the good lord knows, would have children!’’ said Mrs Phelps. It connects by they not caring about having children, they have no feelings towards having feelings for kids.

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In Fahrenheit 451 we see that technology is used as not only an entertainment but a distraction through the interaction of the television. This shows us that due to technology our social and verbal interactions with one another has slowly demolished. Mildred refused to help Montag discover the meanings behind the books this shows how the television has brainwashed her and because of her addiction. With no outside interactions in her life other than Montag she has no except the people in her false reality not even friends.

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‘Can’t you remember?’ ‘it’s been so long .’ ‘Only ten years, that’s all, only ten!’” (Bradbury 40). When Mildred forgets such important milestones, it is clear to see that the abundance of technology that she has makes her forget important events.

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He shows us how addictive we rely on technology can get in this society. He shows us this all throughout the novel from the repetitive developments that involved a character's addiction to some form of technology. Ray Bradbury accurately predicted the future as in 2023 in our present time. He made strong technology predictions and in a way this society is sort of reflected on us with the technology. We see further examples of the theme of technology when Mildred states, “My family is people.

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For example, Montag's wifes life revolves around technology 24/7 because she just sits around all day watching t.v. in her parlor. In Bradbury's society today, Mildred would be considered an antisocial person because she does not interact with anyone. Because of the way that Bradbury created Mildred's society, it is normal for her to do that because everyone else is doing the same thing. Bradbury makes Mildred seem like an antisocial and dependent on technology because he wants to point out what the future would be like if society depended too much on technology. In conclusion, this is another reason that makes me believe he does not like technology since the generation that Mildred and Montag live in they do not know how to successfully communicate with each other so they do not have very good social

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