Fahrenheit 451 In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury depicts a dystopian society, in which submission is used as a form of censorship towards the misuse of power, the deception of memory, and the absorption of one 's self. “People without anything to say or think become empty, and ultimately they lose their own selves.” Bogar and Szigethy stated, selves are constructed by, and made up of memories, and memories are imprints and preservers of the past, so the essence of books in a way is to contain and record the past. “The Montag 's have forgotten how they met; Guy points out to Millie that her degraded sense of autobiography is not simply a cognitive failure of memory capacity.” It is considered an ethical failing because she has failed to …show more content…
“These soap operas are works of fiction, even if simplistic and meaningless ones, and such, are “about non-existent people” about the non-living, and their sole purpose is to distract people 's attention from lives of other people.” The schools are no different, when it comes to being as engaged in technology as the adults in their homes. According to Anna McHugh, schools of the future exploit the television’s effect of “quick and wide spreading” of current and often emotionally charged information which is designed and destined to be forgotten at the instant of its reception. Communication between people is the ideal way to commence this process, but in TV class, the communication is monodirectional, and the resulting material transmitted to the student remains data rather than knowledge. “Thinking of technology broadly constructed as a man made tool or object - they “do not know” but they can teach us humanism.” “In Fahrenheit 451” war is neglected and ignored by the public.” “During the whole timeline of the novel’s plot, we can grasp bits of information on a war that is going on in the background.” Imola Bulgozdi says that Bradbury actually puts much of the blame for the self - destruction of humankind upon depersonalized forces such as “government” and “war” rather than upon people themselves. People “must submit to its rules and conventions” regardless of truth, value, and fairness. Those who unthinkingly submit, like Guy’s wife, end up without possessing a single or original thought or meaningful