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The Role Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Knowledge is information and skills acquired by a person through experience or education. Books and schools are a way to receive knowledge everyday. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he create a society that lives without books or some sort of education to show the effects that technology can have on our lives. Technology can be a wonderful thing and can lead solutions for life threatening moments, but it can serve as a distraction from real world problems. In this society, technology distracts the citizens with false realities and knowledge is destroyed along with the books. In the novel, Bradbury gives a sneak peek of a future with a society that demands its citizens to avoid any type of way to obtain knowledge, anyone can become insurgent. …show more content…

In the novel, students are watching more tv than learning about history or english because education can lead to different ideas and conflict. “The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that” (Bradbury 55). In this society, one of the main goals is to avoid conflict by controlling the environment around them, but that also diminishes the way people get new ideas and innovation. The society believes that stuff like philosophy or sociology can create melancholy and to make the citizens happy, they destroy every book that can give a strid of fact which is every book, but Montag was unhappy and got curious (Bradbury 58). Disbelievers of the book burning are burning themselves as a sign to the public that this society isn’t worth living in. When a society is burning books, curiosity is inevitable and anyone can decide to save the

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“Fahrenheit 451” and today’s society Although knowledge abandonment only existed in the fictional world of Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, some signs have recently shown it might have emerged into the physical world. Ray Bradbury, the author of “Fahrenheit 451” has written what he believes to be the turning point in the history of mankind, a place of zero intelligence. For its less intellectual, entertainment seeking, and non-reading people, “Fahrenheit 451” is still a relevant commentary to the present society. The present generation has less intelligence.

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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.

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As previously stated, books would make us think, contemplate form new and dangerous ideas. This is why the government would choose to burn the books and those who refuse to give them up. They’re reduced to ash, into nothing. In one major scene in Fahrenheit 451 was when, Montag is ordered to burn down his house and books by Beatty, who is the captain of the firemen. After he does this he burns Beatty to death.

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Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a future society where firemen burn books in an attempt to censor information and knowledge from citizens. This restriction of knowledge is used to create an ignorant yet equal society. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman who begins to question the morality of his job and the society he lives in. Guy goes against society and collects books, eventually joining a group of rebels in their mission to rebuild society and preserve the knowledge contained within books. Throughout the novel, Bradbury uses the symbolism of characters, titles, and objects to communicate how the discovery of knowledge can awaken a renaissance.

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An event within the book states, “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing” (51). In this scene, Montag is shaken up upon witnessing a woman choosing to stay in her house as the firemen burned it to the ground due to the fact she had books. He questions the importance books contain that someone would have a strong desire to fight for their beliefs about books. Dialogue between the characters states, “We’re book burners, too.

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