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Technology In Wall-E And Fahrenheit 451

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Technology in Wall-E and Fahrenheit 451 Both Wall-E and Fahrenheit 451 have serious warnings to humanity the dangers of becoming too reliant on technology. Throughout both works there is emphasis on how technology separates people from their fellow man. There are also examples of technology actively going against man in both works. Both works see technology as a major contributor to the deterioration of the human race. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s wife, Mildred, has a severe attachment to her different forms of entertainment. Her “relatives” on the television walls is particularly concerning to Montag. When Montag begins to feel ill and is disturbed by the noise of the relatives, he asks if she would turn them off for him. She responds saying …show more content…

The firemen of Fahrenheit 451 have a robot companion to help them perform their duty called the hound. It is a metallic creature that is meant to attack those running from the firemen and inject them with an anesthetic so they can not attempt escape. Montag has an uneasy feeling about the hound throughout the book. When it is first introduced, Montag decides to approach it. When he touches it, a “growl simmered in the beast and it looked at him,”(Bradbury, 23). It responds aggressively to him, since it is a machine only meant for attacking and wounding. Later, after Montag’s confrontation with Beatty, he is chased by the hound through the city. The hound moves around “silent as a drift of death itself,” (Bradbury, 128). It chases him without emotion, it’s only goal to get it’s target. The hound is an example of technology getting out of hand and affecting humanity in an extremely negative way. It does not truly help anybody, but is only used for violence. The autopilot of Wall-E has a similar effect on the population of the Axiom. Auto was meant to be a tool to allow the citizens and captain to relax, but in the end he only ends up hindering them. When Wall-E and Eve bring the plant life to the captain, Auto steals and hides it, even though one of the main missions of the ship was to find plant life and return back to their home on earth after it was

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Montag grabbed the brass pole with one hand… He was trembling and his face was green-white. Below, the Hound had sunk back down…”(Bradbury 26). The quote shows that Montag is fearful of the Hound, like Harden fears Westbrook as does the entire league, even though they were on the same

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Fahrenheit 451 Comparison I am comparing the book Fahrenheit 451 to the movie WALL-E. It is important to compare the ideas and style of different texts because it helps to understand the purpose of them being different. Both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E involve technology and symbols, but they are used differently between the two. In the book Fahrenheit 451 technology is used very differently than it is in the movie WALL-E. Fahrenheit 451 uses mechanical hounds which have control of the people and has poison that can be injected to prevent people from doing certain things that the society wouldn’t approve of.

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They use a mechanical hound to enforce the law. Montag is hiding books so the mechanical hound always has it out for him. He describes the hound as “the mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live”(24). The mechanical hound symbolizes the manipulation of technology, by not helping the firemen. Instead, the hound participates in the government oppression.

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Montag's barely escapes death but not before being bitten by the hound in the leg which has a sort of paralysis poison in it. Guy kills the hound with the flamethrower and runs away from the scene but the police force quickly and chase him down. Thus starting the end of Fahrenheit 451.

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It’s out there now” (Bradbury 45).Montag was never sure where the hound was, but he always knew when it was near. Montag and the hound never got along, “he saw the sliver needle extend upon the air an inch, pull back, extend, pull back. The growl simmered in the beast and looked at him” (Bradbury 23). The hound is always up tight when Montag is around. The hound is always in Montag’s way, and when Montag tries to do something the hound is not far

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In Fahrenheit 451, technology, violence and distractions are used as a warning to society. First of all, technology is constantly around their society and is getting better. If this happens to our society many would not be engaged with their life Secondly, in the book distractions are created to create a better society, but this creates emotion to be fake. This could change society drastically now days .

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The government has built these watchdogs that watch everyone’s every move to see if they are breaking the society’s laws. Montag is really disturbed because he is a different person and he is scared that the dog is suspicious of him. The dog is very good at hunting down and killing, which is a huge example of a dystopian society that has no privacy. Another example in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 would be when the captain says "Come

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How does Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Pixar Film’s ‘Wall-E’ explore the dangers and perils of future technologies? Ray Bradbury’s novel ‘Fahrenheit 451’ and the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E both explore concerns about society and the future in dystopian settings which feature advanced technology in far-future societies. Similarly, they explore and express criticisms about technology by suggesting that dependence and over-reliance can inhibit human relationships. They also both deal with oppression of humanity by an overarching government or power that uses technology to aid them to keep the population under control and accept the life that is dictated for them. Both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E emphasize the use and potentiality of super-advanced

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In the novel, it chases Montag after he kills Beatty and flees to Faber’s house. Montag luckily lost the hound by jumping into the river, which didn't allow the dog to continue following Montag’s scent. Even though the setting and its surrounding can change a story, the plot can change it much

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Bradbury uses imagery surrounding the hound to create fear in the society. Bradbury states, ¨The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse¨ (Bradbury 1.223). The Hound represents fear, this quote shows this because fear doesn 't sleep but its always present in this society because it 's not a physical thing, its a feeling. Montag doesn 't think that people in this society should be so scared. He wants to change the way people see boks.

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It "lives" in a paradoxical state, and is used only for killing and destroying. The Hound is treated as an unfailing, quick fix to those that have gone astray from society's life guidelines. The Mechanical Hound is the prime example of society's perversion of natural life, as it distorts the image of an amiable family dog into a robotic murder machine that will never feel any of the emotions a real, living dog does. The Mechanical Hound is trapped in a perpetual state

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The Hound impacts and is relevant to the world around us for three reasons: it symbolizes how we upset nature in today’s time, government control of technology, and that there is an almighty power constantly watching us with the power to eliminate us. Many machines are personified in this story to represent an animal. The Hound of course represents a dog. When Ray Bradbury wrote and published this story back in 1953 (SparkNotes Editors) this was his way of showing us how humanity has begun to treat nature which has become unforgivable and will soon be the death of us.

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