Fahrenheit 451 Technology Analysis

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Technological Advance Author of the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, wrote this novel in futuristic time frame. The people in this society are not aware of what is actually going on specifically, besides the fact there is about to be war, they are so caught up in the technology and are not allowed to read books. In current society technology has its place, but books do also. There is room for both books and technology in today’s society; they both give people a run for their time. Bradbury is not all the way correct when he plays Montag’s society as unhappy and overly dependent of technology for the future of America. Bradbury’s claim that future America is mostly based on technology is not right to say because people are aware currently of how much technology can mess up, and are educated from books. The current population will also be able to carry that acknowledgement forward. Electronics may take up a majority of America today, but it is not dependable always. Bradbury in his society shows that no one is happy if they are not on their technological device. …show more content…

Montag’s wife Mildred is one of the people in the society that is obsessed with her devices, “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away” (Montag 9). Montag does not really have a bond with Mildred, his wife, in the book. They go day by day with minimal conversation; Montag basically begs Mildred to speak to him about anything. Mildred is mostly emotionless because of technology, “Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall; but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow” (Bradbury 10). There are some people like Mildred in society today, but they still are able to be social with other humans. Technology does not impact the society today as Bradbury makes it out to

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